Quotes About Empowerment

It's realizing that I can do this. I'm in charge.

he didn't need to create new believers so much as he needed to unleash the believers he already had.

He inspired them to feel more determined, more ready, more motivated. And when you build people up in this way, they develop the strength to act.

It's an ingenious tactic. What the therapist is trying to demonstrate, in a subtle way, is that the client is capable of solving her own problem.

encouragement is critical, because it's self-reinforcing.

Marcus Buckingham, who says that

If you want to change the culture of your organization, you've got to get the reformers together. They need a free space.

What if we didn't just remember the defining moments of our lives but made them?

As I see it, I am not just in charge of food service; I am in charge of morale.

After age twenty-five, you're not a victim anymore — you're a volunteer.

Study after study shows that employees leave organizations primarily because of poor relationships with managers, not because of pay, benefits, or other factors. How well you train, coach, empower, and support your people—and whether you show appreciation for the hard work they do each day in the trenches serving customers—makes all the difference not only in retaining your best employees, but also in creating memorable experiences for customers.

Co-creation partnerships that prosper reject selfishness; they are all about "How can I serve you?

Invite your customer to take risks in the pursuit of inspired innovation, and be your customer's net when they step onto that high wire.

Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali

I couldn't control what was done to me. But my response to it was in my control.

I thought that if lokas existed at all, good women would surely go to one where men were not allowed so that they could be finally free of male demands.

You aren't some weak-willed wench. You can control your emotions. Remember all that you've survived. Behave like the queen you are. No one can take your dignity away from you. You lose it only by your own actions.

It didn't drain me as I thought it might. Instead, it invigorated me. Such was love's magic—the giver gained more than the receiver.

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you. Instrument

People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness.

O king of Ayodhya, you know I'm innocent, and yet, unfairly, you're asking me to step into the fire. You offer me a tempting prize indeed—to live in happiness with you and my children. But I must refuse. Because if I do what you demand, society will use my action forever after to judge other women. Even when they aren't guilty, the burden of proving their innocence will fall on them. And society will say

niente vale quanto essere il padrone di te stesso.

This was something I had achieved by myself, without having to depend on anyone. No one could take it away. That's what I want for you, my Tara, my Bela. That's what it really means to be a fortunate lamp.