Quotes About Empowerment

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

No shade tree? Blame not the sun, but yourself.

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

Kim yaratm??t?? Kuma olmaktan, insan?n ruhuyla, bedeniyle tutsak olmas?ndan daha küçültücü ?ey var m? dünyada? Zavall? kad?nlar, mezarlar?n?zdan kalk?n! K?zl?klar? ellerinden zorla al?nm?? kad?nlar?n, a?a??lanm?? kad?nlar?n ruhlar?, kalk?n! Kalk?n, kötü dünyalar?, pis dünyalar? titretin! Ben ça??r?yorum sizi, ben, sonuncunuz! Ben, ba?kald?ran kuma.

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

This is not a feel-good book. (But I am confident you will feel good after reading it.) It is not a motivational book. (But I promise you will be motivated once you are done.)

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

I broke at last the terror-fringed fascination that bound my ancient gaze to those crowding faces of plunder and seized my remnant life in a miracle of decision between white collar hands and shook it like a cheap watch in my ear and threw it down beside me on the earth floor and rose to my feet.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.

Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

As Viktor Frankl wrote, "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." You have the power to choose how you respond. You are a product of your decisions, not your conditions. In

one way to motivate a switch is to shrink the change, which makes people feel "big" relative to the challenge.

Buckingham has a fine series of books on making the most of your strengths rather than obsessing about your weaknesses.)

should not be "losing 10 pounds," it should be something intrinsically motivating, such as "Fitting into my sexy black pants (without gastrointestinal distress)." Suddenly, your weight-loss mission starts looking more like a playful quest, with frequent victories along the way, and less like a daily weigh-in on the bathroom scale

motivation comes from feeling—knowledge isn't enough to motivate change. But motivation also comes from confidence. The Elephant has to believe that it's capable of conquering the change. And there are two routes to building people's confidence so that they feel "big" relative to their challenge. You can shrink the change or grow your people (or, preferably, both).

To get the Elephant off its duff, you need to reassure it that the task won't be so bad.

her successes came despite a lack of authority and resources.