Quotes About Empowerment

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.

Everyone has got it in him, if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Until I die, I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.

The most important office is that of private citizen.

If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.

God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.

A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

In uplifting, get underneath.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.