Quotes About Empowerment

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

Over time, a subtle cancer spread: where you have more experts, you create more bystanders. Professionals did all the fighting and fixing we used to handle ourselves; they even took over our fun, playing our sports while we sat back and watched.

Now, Ah Hing, I'm going to teach you how to fight like a woman. —GRANDMASTER IP MAN, Bruce Lee's teacher

Middle-aged women are likewise no strangers to the lead pack in ultramarathons. Pam Reed was forty-one when she outran all the men to win the 135-mile Badwater ultra across Death Valley in 2002; the following year, she returned and did it again. Diana Finkel was just shy of forty when she led for the first ninety miles of the brutally hard Hardrock 100, finishing second overall.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. —Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas

that it took him nearly the entire walk to notice what was happening: his back didn't hurt. Didn't hurt a bit. Heyyy … Ted thought. Maybe I can

Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.

there was never anything wrong with Jenni that couldn't be fixed by what's right with Jenni.

Los griegos creían que cualquier persona podía desbloquear un potencial sobrehumano activando los tres pilares del heroísmo: la habilidad, la fuerza y la compasión. Y tenían razón. Se puede.

Meanwhile, in Boston, Running While Female was literally a crime: any woman who dared attempt the Boston Marathon in the 1960s was subject to arrest by the cops or, if your dad was in charge, a beating. "If that girl were my daughter, I would spank her," race director Will Cloney famously snarled after Kathrine Switzer finagled her way onto the course in 1967.

All my pacers are women," Chlouber says. "They get the job done.

Running was the superpower that made us human—which means it's a superpower all humans possess.

Heroism isn't some mysterious inner virtue, the Greeks believed; it's a collection of skills that every man and woman can master so that in a pinch, they can become a Protector.

a boy learns better what he teaches himself....

There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Where there is fear, there is power." When we look at what we are afraid of, we can unlock great resources of strength.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

Never allow others to create your world because if you do, they will always make it too small.

Some say it's what's on the inside that counts. If that were true about women, Playboy would be running centerfolds of brain tissues and gall bladders.

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.