Quotes About Empowerment

I communicate that philosophy to my students frequently, to remind them that whenever I ask them to do something, my goal is to help them be successful—not simply to issue orders. Once

simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

As we will soon discover, admitting we are not God—not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things—doesn't belittle us; it frees us.

Now is the time to walk in the freedom that he has won.

Jesus Christ has broken the power of sin, and God's invitation to us is to embrace a new mindset and a new way of living. In Jesus' name we are to think of ourselves as dead to the power of sin. In Jesus' name we don't have to let the voice of the Enemy control the way we live. In Jesus' name we don't have to give in to sinful desires; we can win the battle for our minds.

No! It's not your fault. You belong to the last generation of women who have been brought up to use their sex appeal to further their ambition.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

Up to a point a person's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Schop de mensen tot ze een geweten krijgen.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

The spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.