Quotes About Empowerment

No es posible ayudar a las personas haciendo por ellas lo que ellas deberían hacer por sí mismas. Abraham Lincoln

Perempuan jangan selalu merasa dirinya harus mengorbankan dirinya kepada laki-laki dengan gampang

Tubuhnya menua setiap kali lelaki itu memasukinya dengan paksa dan merenggut usianya sepotong demi sepotong.

She felt like that worst thing—a victim.

Kami tak suka mengeluh. Bukan karena mengeluh itu sebuah kelemahan, tapi karena kami telah mendidik diri kami untuk tak membiarkan hidup memengaruhi kami, atau kemampuan kami untuk berfungsi di dalamnya.

Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.

Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad -- don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 years old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound or a pound or two pounds. It will still do something.

I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.

Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen -- right?

The women's way was more effective. They might be ignored, abused, or dominated, but in the end the women were more practical, keeping their eye on whatever prize was within their grasp.

We need education, not bullets. That the only way we win. Not all these white men bad. We got to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. That the only way progress last.

Tantra considers it very important to eradicate such symptoms of ego. There is no point in holding garbage-concepts of yourself. You are perfect; you just need to recognize it. According to tantra, you do not need to wait until your next life to experience heaven.

According to the Buddhist point of view, there is no human problem that cannot be solved by human beings.

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

"No" is a complete sentence.

OVERALL, THE MORE STRESSFUL MY LIFE WAS BECOMING, THE MORE DETERMINED I was to get it together, stop acting like a passenger, and climb back behind the wheel where I belonged

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself.

The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.