Quotes About Empowerment

In pursuing the goal of development, one must start with the producers and move on from there to see whether the products of their labor are being rationally utilized to bring greater independence and well-being to the nation.

Beauty is in the very existence of black people.

The essence of white power is that it is exercised over black peoples - whether or not [black peoples] are minority of majority, whether it was a country belonging originally to whites or to blacks. It is exercised in such a way that black people have no share in that power and are, therefore, denied any say in their own destinies.

I believe that there is but ONE THINKER in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking is an extension, through God, of every other man's thinking. I therefore think that the greater the exaltation and ecstasy of my thinking, the greater the standards of all man's thinking will be. Each man is thus empowered to uplift all men as each drop of water uplifts the entire ocean.

If you're afraid of something, then reach deep inside and face it head-on.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing.

Be exposed. Be open. Be who you want to be. It will never hurt as much as starving your own humanity of oxygen.

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.

No more circuses.

God never asks us to do anything we can do. He asks us to live a life which we can never live and to do a work which we can never do. Yet, by His grace, we are living it and doing it.

When teachers are fully successful, they are successful beyond any of their conscious intentions about particular subjects: they make converts, they make souls that have been turned around to face a given way of being and moving in the world.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.

A mind at peace a mind centered and not focused on harming others is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.