Quotes About Empowerment

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community.

Bitcoin is open-source, global, and requires no permission from anybody, so thousands of entrepreneurs are gravitating in and building their vision.

Makeup is an extraordinary tool that allows me to share my inspirations, my fantasies, and my vision with the world.

I don't think it's my job, single-handedly, to fix anything. I think it's my job to have a vision and have a plan that is reasonable and workable and get as many people to the table to effect change as possible.

Svatantra's journey began with a vision to make women in rural areas self-sustainable.

Women empowerment is, after all, a dream, a vision of Rajivji. It is a genuine vision. We now have so many women in Panchayats.

Exceptional leaders don't impart just vision, rather they cultivate the emergence of vision.

I want to go back to my country to help other girls. We need to support girls to see other possibilities for themselves, to have a vision for their own future.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.

General Sheryl Gordon is a trailblazer and visionary leader.

I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.

Frankl's quote pops into my mind again. He's making space between stimulus and response in order to choose his freedom.

take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own.