Quotes About Empowerment

Take back your brain. Take back your heart. Live as your soul intended.

Self-mastery is the ability to be comfortable being uncomfortable

Own your progress. Claim your worth.

You don't want to wake up one morning and realize that everything you've done in your life has been to please someone else. That you've let yourself be railroaded along the way.

Humph. Like hell. James Whitehorn Honeycutt would simply have to find another way to merge Honeycutt Foods with Reedwater Snacks. Regardless of what her father thought, the merger wasn't worth her freedom, or her happiness. She wasn't some medieval bride to be bartered off like a herd of cattle and a milk goat, for pity's sake. She was a woman who wanted more, who wanted to

I don't want to know where Semco is headed. It doesn't unnerve me to see nothing on the company's horizon. I want Semco and its employees to ramble through their days, to use instinct, opportunity, and ingenuity to choose projects and ventures.

Semco's most precious asset is the wisdom of its workforce, and our success grows out of our employees' success.

Advertisements with Semco's name at the top ran in several newspapers asking for résumés via e-mail. Four hundred people replied. There were no rules for narrowing down the respondents. We didn't want a list of requirements to limit our options, so the idea was to make the process highly intuitive and to follow our gut reactions.

No one knows where this will lead, and what power sharing or cohabitation it will carve, but it will certainly bring us face-to-face with our own inconsistencies, and give our employees a chance to feel effectively empowered—with a strong voice. We should never be scared of our own people, whatever it is they have to say or demand—the result is always vastly superior to the ostrich approach of looking for subtle ways of keeping their demands subdued.

At Semco we accept that every individual wants and needs a worthwhile pursuit in life. It's up to us to provide the environment and opportunity for their gratification.

Semco, we abolish manuals, procedures, and policies so that people are free to improvise, to soar, and to collect the moments of happiness that constitute genuine success.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, Jonathan would say, other times, is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Why is it," Jonathan puzzled, "that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?

The only law is one which leads to freedom

Rompe las cadenas de tu pensamiento, y romperás también las cadenas de tu cuerpo

We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.

Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them

Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too….