Quotes About Empowerment

1) Always question authority; (2) when in doubt, see rule 1.

What we truly want is the satisfaction of seeing our children become mature, self-reliant human beings, at any age, thinking for themselves, free and happy. Parents who want anything else are obsessed with control and not free and happy themselves.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

Feeling the Lord magnify me professionally as I sought to serve him solidified my commitment to serve the Lord first. In doing so I learned that I could do more professionally in part of my time with His help than in all of my time without it.

And I just keep going day after day, year after year. Waiting for the patriarchy to die, and through my work, killing it.

Maggie, tou made it possible -but not probably for me to be the man I am now.

I want to make the world a more magickal place. To give magick a form that people appreciate, and that changes their lives. To create art that will make people want to forever reject the mundane and mediocre world they've been surrounded by

Some have said that I was crippled beyond the measure of a man. I do not see it that way. I believe I was liberated.

Through divorce, death, and bankruptcy, lost jobs and lost boyfriends, the women of the Denver Roller Dolls are there at the rink four times a week beating each other up—and building each other up.

It's not caring if others think what I'm doing is stupid or foolish. It is about being honest with myself and doing what makes me happy and not bowing to outside pressures.

Diagnosed ill and off-kilter, poisoners, dreamers, madmen, lunatics, loners, sad ones, bad ones, star pegs in square holes, movers, shakers, mass debaters, tokers, pokers, instigators, conformity haters, subterfuge vessels and assassins of the vassals who lord over free and intelligent men with a dollar held high so that we jump until we die and know not of the pleasures of this life and the freedom of a soul unrestrained from the prison where the only fate is to hang.

Teach boys that emotional courage is courage, and that courage and empathy are the sources of real strength in life.

Teach boys that there are many ways to be a man.

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

A job should not define who or what you are. You should be able to leave today and it not change the overall purpose or direction of your life.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." —Jim Rohn

Perhaps the unwelcome event you've encountered is just an opportunity to help you know how to stand up stronger.

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.

God's salvation is a gift. We were nothing but corpses on the run from God's reign. But God, in his grace, chased us down, overcame our resistance, and began to heal our sin-infected will. His grace gives us hearts of compassion, love for neighbors and friends, and it empowers us with boldness to share the message of redemption. God's grace is an overcoming grace.

A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally." - Dan Reynold

Some lead by example, like Rand Fishkin of Moz (formerly SEOmoz), who says his goal is to create a hundred new millionaires — then issued additional stock grants for every Moz employee as a part of the Series B funding, directly out of his personal holdings, to ensure that a financing round wouldn't be dilutive.

What are YOU trying to accomplish? Do you have Whos in your life that give you the perspectives, resources, and ability to go beyond what you could do alone? Or are you keeping your goals so small to make them easier to accomplish them on your own?