Quotes About Empowerment

Why can't "They say" let every body settle their own affairs?

That a man can change himself, improve himself, re-create himself, control his environment, and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought in constructive action - Larsen

No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

No looking back. Life goes one way only. And whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson...

If every generation helps the next take one step up, imagine where we might all be someday.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

By way of conclusion, Luce said, I lived through it [the rape], so if you can't stand to hear it, you can take me home and go to hell. Men get so damn strange sometimes.

No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

Lola's only nugget of wisdom to her little daughters was Never cry, never ever.

But Luce takes the attitude, when you start fretting the day-by- day you lose track of the long view. And the long view is, they need to learn to speak for themselves and do the best they can. For now, if they bag their own lunch and it's pickles and prunes and they say the words, all you do is put both thumbs up and say, Good job.

The Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid [or fearful]; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control" (2 Timothy 1:7).

A study at Google found that the #1 dynamic that set successful teams apart from other teams was the presence of psychological safety, the ability of team members to take risks without feeling insecure or embarrassed (Rozovsky, 2015).

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Viktor Frankl (1984) Author of Man's Search for Meaning

There are heroes and, emphatically, heroines enough in this history. Yielding to the temptation to focus on their courage, however, may miss the point. Part of the legacy of people like Ella Baker and Septima Clark is a faith that ordinary people who learn to believe in themselves are capable of extraordinary acts, or better, of acts that seem extraordinary to us precisely because we have such an impoverished sense of the capabilities of ordinary people.

Without our realizing it, we were trained to think that the most significant people are star athletes, actors, and musicians—the ones we applaud, those whose autographs others seek. They aren't. Not really. Most often, the people worth noting are the individuals who turn a "nobody" into a "somebody" but never receive credit.

I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.

Grace releases people not only from sin but from shame.

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (v. 17). This means there is also an absence of expectations.

When God puts His hand on a plain, ordinary person whom He has destined for leadership, that person is given mountain-matching abilities, whether he be a Roosevelt, a Lincoln, a Nehemiah-or a person like you or me.

Cuando la gracia de Cristo ilumine su vida, descubrirá que no hace las cosas por temor, por vergüenza o por culpa, sino que las hace por amor.

grace strengthens us. It strengthens our hearts, awakens in us the courage to stand firm.

Ahora mismo, en este mismo momento, hay millones de personas que viven ahogadas por la vergüenza, la culpa, la intimidación, cuando debieran ser personas productivas y libres.

I am convinced that life is 10% of what happens to me and 90 % how I react. And so it is with you, we are in charge of our Attitudes.

El Espíritu Santo viene para darnos una forma de vida completamente diferente. una vida que se desarrolla en un plano diferente. Se vive por encima de la culpa y la vergüenza, se vive por encima de los temores de la vida. Nos capacita para vivir como vencedores y no como víctimas.