Quotes About Empowerment

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

Work with people who believe what you believe.

Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything.

I've always thought of myself as a woman who works hard, believes in herself, and wants to accomplish as much as possible.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

I'm very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.