Quotes About Empowerment

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.

A manager is an assistant to his men.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Once you begin to feel you are making a go of it on your own—that you are making moves and thinking thoughts which seem to have originated within you—it is not possible for you to believe you are anything but your own master.

Citizens of the democracies are the authors of their own destinies, and what they have made they can also change and improve.

A people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison

When we subtly shift toward both focusing on and finding joy in the process of achieving instead of having the goal, we have gained a new skill. And once mastered, it is magical and incredibly empowering.

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

Developing a consciousness culture has nothing to do with establishing a religion or a particular political agenda. On the contrary, a true consciousness culture will always be subversive, by encouraging individuals to take responsibility for their own lives.

Without time management, you lose control of your life and do what other people tell you to do. You lose control and become a puppet that everyone can control and manipulate.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

That government is best which governs least.

Make government what it ought to be, and it will support itself.