Quotes About Empowerment

You can't command commitment; you have to inspire it. You

Leaders enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations.

Leaders provide opportunities for people to exceed their previous levels of performance.

The central task for leaders is inspiring a shared vision, not selling their personal view of the world. You need to imagine the end result and be able to communicate your vision such that your constituents find a way to achieve their hopes and dreams while achieving that result.

Conformity produces compliance, not commitment. Unity is essential, and unity is forged, not forced.

They find "sources of strength in the self to develop the self.

She learned as she led, and led as she learned.

The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. [ Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774 ]

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.

Nothing in this world is dangerous unless white folks says it is," she said flatly. "Danger here. Danger there. We don't need you to tell us about danger in these projects. We don't need you to say what the world is to us.

We'll be colored when the day's done, no matter how the cut comes or goes.

She does her hair in an Afro like Cicely Tyson, that famous actress I seen on TV once, or Angela Davis, who I don't know exactly who she is but they say she's got guts and ain't scared of white people.

I read the book on not being explained to. That's called being an old colored woman, sir.

It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free?

I'm Osawatomie John Brown of Kansas," he declared. He liked to use his full Indian name when he was warring. "And I come to free the Negro people.

It's really crucial not to flip out that a certain task or skill won't be done correctly if you don't do it yourself. In fact, it's really pivotal when you can place innate faith into people who work for you. Delegation gives you a chance to improve your end result, or final outcome. 2 The

The only person holding you back; is you. Once you become comfortable with overcoming your own fears, you will start seeing dramatic success in your life.

You can only be you, and it is not until you reclaim your unique self that you can be truly great.

Don't wait for change. You change.

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

Don't be afraid." "I hear voices," Iggy said. "Be very afraid.

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain. It's yours. It's all yours for taking! You're not going to waste it now, are you?