Quotes About Empowerment

The life I am experiencing, good or bad, is the collective result of the choices I have made, knowingly or unknowingly. When I accept this, I acknowledge that I have the power to create my destiny.

You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*, [she points to a daisy] Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*. [she gestures to a field of daisies]

Still, I believe that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who know they are this"—she held the daisy in her hand—"yet let themselves be treated as that

well', he said. 'most people aren't like you. They're locked up in themselves. They live in their castles - all alone. They're like me.' 'Well, everyone lives in his own castle', said Maude. 'But that's no reason not to lower the drawbridge and go out on visits.

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people--motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people centered. Colin Powell

I've learned a simple and obvious truth from my own education experience: We have to give every kid in America the access to public education that I received. We need to place public education at the top of our priorities and the center of our national

She was wearing her new purple miniskirt with the split up the side and an incredibly bright red lipstick she had bought off the internet that was guaranteed to drive boys wild

The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.

Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.

Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well.

It's not the tragedy that can ruin you—it's your own attitude toward it. You can let adversity make or break you, Jason. It's up to you.

The scars don't define you. Who you really are inside is what matters. Any woman with real depth would know that.

Nothing could define her unless she let it. She had God in her life to heal those broken places, but she hadn't let him do it.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself —Chinese proverb

Chloe wasn't a defect. I refuse to ever look at my child that way . . . or allow anyone else in my presence to do so.

Colleen Gleason

You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.

We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.

Be what you know you are without fear of disapproval.

Become All that you were destined to be and someone somewhere shall thank you.

Had I listened to the words of others, I'd have stayed nothing.

One must believe one's greatness before they can become it.