Quotes About Empowerment

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation's general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that!

There is a comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

women are proof than man was just God's first draft.

Teaching is learning, and learning is the teaching.