Quotes About Empowerment

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

As with public hospitals, better public schools are likely to emerge when local teachers and parents have more say over how their schools are run. It's especially important to give parents a direct say in the running of schools rather than just an advisory role. Even

You took nothing from me.

An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern

But if there is hope, it lies in ordinary working people. When you put it in words it sounds reasonable: it is when you look at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it becomes an act of faith.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

The right to demand the best and refuse the worst and do so not by virtue of your wealth, but your equal status as citizen, thats precisely what the modern Labour Party should stand for

The old saying, "As you believe, so it shall be for you" is a great truth.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Eventually, as I studied grace more in-depth, I began to see the truth: After being saved it was still His grace that made me His, kept me His, and would enable me to live in a way that pleased Him.

Grace makes us what we are and works in us and through us (1 Corinthians 15:10).

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speak—its people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing.

If you want to support, provide for, and care for the people around you, you need to be at your best. Otherwise, you'll just drag them down with you.

There is no passion to be found in playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.

Let's get you back to the kitchen and put some butter on those wounds.

The Capacity of Your Team Will Determine the Potential Impact of Your Ministry

Someone enjoying a higher level of Consciousness understands more, is not bound by past patterns of thinking and behavior, and thus has more freedom of choice and action.

Life doesn't give a fuck who's living it.