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Quotes About Empowerment

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
~ Salma Hayek
Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
~ Thomas Carlyle
. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
~ Ernest Holmes
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
~ Charles M. Schwab
For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.
~ Walter Rodney
If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
~ Charles M. Schwab
It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.
~ Martin Landau
It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
~ Bette Davis
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
~ Duke of Wellington
The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side. I've felt ugly and insecure.
~ Irina Shayk
Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.
~ Kwame Nkrumah
How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
~ Warsan Shire
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
~ Anna Julia Cooper
Theres a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
~ Fetty Wap
The free man is a warrior.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.
~ Stephen A. Smith
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
~ H. L. Mencken
The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs.
~ Paco Rabanne
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
~ Brennan Manning
A man's mind is elevated to the status of the women he associates with.
~ Professor Griff