Quotes About Empowerment

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

If you consider yourself a victim, you are not going to have a good life; if, however, you refuse to think of yourself as a victim—if you refuse to let your inner self be conquered by your external circumstances—you are likely to have a good life, no matter what turn your external circumstances take. (In particular, the Stoics thought it possible for a person to retain his tranquility despite being punished for attempting to reform the society in which he lived.)

only when we assume responsibility for our happiness that we will have a reasonable chance of gaining it.

And why is self-discipline worth possessing? Because those who possess it have the ability to determine what they do with their life. Those who lack self-discipline will have the path they take through life determined by someone or something else, and as a result, there is a very real danger that they will mislive.

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

The people who get the best out of others are those who insist on seeing them at their best.

what Jesus is saying is: 'I am setting you a hard task, and I am sending you out on a very difficult engagement. But I am going to send you someone, the parakl?tos, who will guide you as to what to do and enable you to do it.

He will be the cause whereby many will rise. Long ago Seneca said that what people needed above all was a hand let down to lift them up. It is the hand of Jesus which lifts us out of the old life and into the new, out of the sin into the goodness, out of the shame into the glory.

I have spent most of my life most happily in making plans for others to carry out.

Americans must rise up and make all in Washington DC unemployed.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers was asleep, he (Casanova) progressed until he arrived at the thought " that it was ridiculous to be oppressed

Giving people a part brings their firsthand knowledge to bear on solving problems. Joint decisions are not necessarily better than unilateral ones, but including people makes their knowledge available to the decision-maker, whoever that may be. 4.?The knowledge thus provided is more than the facts about the problem—it also includes the facts about the self-interest of the various parties affected by the situation.

Do whatever you can to restore people's sense of having some control over their situation.

Part You can give each person a part to play in both the plan and the outcome. People need a tangible way to contribute and participate.

Maybe it's that women can get along without men a damn sight better than men can get along without women. And the fact that they know it. That alone gives them a big edge. In endurance, in whatever you want to call it. They know they'll win out in the end.

The euphoria of quitting a bad job was rivaled only by good sex.

When you take complete responsibility for your thoughts and actions and embrace your natural ability to create your reality, all things are possible.

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achieve escape velocity in order to break free the dense gravity field of matter and form.

provides a powerful way to awaken to your life's purpose,