Quotes About Empowerment

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.