Quotes About Empowerment

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

A member of a free democracy is, in a sense, a sovereign. He has no superior. He

Now, the aid which helps a man to help himself is not in the least akin to the aid which is given in charity. If

men who are taught to expect Government inspectors to come and take care of them lose all true education in liberty. If

He makes the heart new, and having made it fit for heavenly motion, setting every wheel, as it were, in its right place, then he winds it up by his actuating grace, and sets it on going, the thoughts to stir, the will to move and make towards the holy object presented; yet here the chariot is set, and cannot ascend the hill of action till God puts his shoulder to the wheel: 'to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not,' Rom. 7:18.

The manifestations of God's love are to fit us for our work.

If we do only what is required of us we are slaves, the moment we do more we are free. – CICERO

It's a pretty good rule to remember that every time we come into contact with another person, even though just walking a block, our job is to lead him to a higher plane than that one on which we found him.

The Advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only true guardian of liberty. "—James Madison.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

The more we do, the more we can do.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

Marshall placed enormous trust in Eisenhower, and Ike always honored him for it. "I must have assistants who will solve their own problems," Marshall told him, "and tell me later what they have done." The historian of Eisenhower's presidency can draw a direct line between these words and Eisenhower's own management style as chief executive, when he too would look for powerful and confident lieutenants and allow them the freedom to run their own departments.

Alice's message for today—in Wonderland and the world at large—is that young women can do anything they like.

Our nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination… rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Viktor E. Frankl] joked that in contrast to Freud's and Adler's "depth psychology," which emphasizes delving into an individual's past and his or her unconscious instincts and desires, he practiced "height psychology," which focuses on a person's future and his or her conscious decisions and actions...His goal was to provoke people into realizing that they could and should exercise their capacity for choice to achieve their own goals.