Quotes About Empowerment

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.

First, teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

People will support that which they help to create.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Two thirds of help is to give courage.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere, and within your reach.

It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge.