Quotes About Empowerment

Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

it's something that every girl realizes at some point in her life, usually when she's around fifteen or sixteen. Maybe it's even younger now. That she has more power than every man in the room combined, because men are weak and governed by their desires and their desperate need for women but women are strong. I've always believed that if women could only collectively harness the power that they have then they'd rule the world.

Little girls are taught fairy tales that are filled with magic. Cinderella is taught to wait in the kitchen for a guy with the right shoe! Snow White is given the message that if she waits long enough, her prince will come. On a literal level, that story tells women that their destiny depends on waiting for a necrophile (someone who likes to kiss dead people) to stumble through the woods at the right time. Not a pretty picture!

Looking at Yourself Through the Eyes of Your Higher Power

Self-acceptance overcomes the self-rupture of toxic shame. Self-acceptance is the way to gain our personal power. When we accept ourselves, we are unified; all our energy is centered and flows outward.

Tôi có quy?n tin b?t c? Ä'i?u gì tôi th?y tin. Tôi ch? c?n ch?p nh?n h?u qu? cho ni?m tin c?a mình.

Now, as your adult gives your wounded inner child permission to disobey your parents' beliefs and rules, your inner child must believe that you have enough power to go against your parents. This power is what Eric Berne called potency

Reframing my life with my wonder child helped me to see that everything in my childhood prepared me for what I'm doing now. The purpose I found in my meditation was that I am here to be myself and to proclaim my human freedom and to help others do the same.

If you didn't get your infancy needs met, if you were a Lost Child, you can give yourself a new infancy. You can do this by anchoring actual experiences relating to the strengths you have now.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. —Carlos Castaneda Don Juan, Journey to Ixtlan

There is an anonymous saying, "Of all the masks of freedom, discipline (limits) is the hardest to understand." We cannot be truly free without having limits.

By undercutting fundamentalism and intolerance, education would curtail violence and war. By empowering women, it would curb poverty and the population explosion.

We've exalted our womenfolk into little tin gods, and at the same time left them out of the real business of life.

The grace He supplies ignites the soul of His people like a roaring fire that, despite the devil's best efforts, will never be extinguished. This is a difficult concept for man to understand—that even when we are tempted, Christ is doing all the work by supplying the grace we need to stand firm.

Transformation is within reach of anyone who is willing to change themselves, live good values value people, and collaborate with others to bring about lasting positive change. p182 Change Your World

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

Many people view leadership the same way they view success, hoping to go as far as they can, to climb the ladder, to achieve the highest position possible for their talent. But contrary to conventional thinking, I believe the bottom line in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others. That is achieved by serving others and adding value to their lives.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." -John C. Maxwell

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

Leaders Who Attract Followers . . . Need to Be Needed Leaders Who Develop Leaders . . . Want to Be Succeeded

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

Leadership is more disposition than position—influence others from wherever you are.