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Quotes About Empowerment

Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.
~ Nachman of Breslov
No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.
~ Catherine McAuley
When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.
~ Dolores Huerta
The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.
~ Vandana Shiva
Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.
~ Philip Neri
Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
~ Dolores Huerta
Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.
~ Mary Parker Follett
Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.
~ Linus Pauling
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.
~ Lauryn Hill
I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.
~ Hudson Taylor
I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.
~ Karen Horney
Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.
~ Martin Delany
People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.
~ Muhammad Yunus
Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.
~ James Franco
Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.
~ Ken Blanchard
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
~ Lee Iacocca
The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.
~ Tom Cruise
The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.
~ Tommy Douglas
I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.
~ Barbara Billingsley
A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
~ Simon Sinek
Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.
~ Peter Kropotkin