Quotes About Empowerment

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

Not until midlife did she truly believe that she had a right to exist, that the forces of nature had created her not as an afterthought and companion - a bent rib, as the infamous Malleus Maleficarum had it - but as the mainstay of the continuing Creation, as the daughter of a daughter and a woman whose daughters in turn would bear daughters.

Change your present perspective and change what you think and do, and you can change your future. You are not a slave to your past. Your present situation may be the result of the decisions you made in your past, but your future will be the result of the decisions you make now.

no one can make you feel bad about yourself without your permission.

First of all, accept that something is wrong with you. It's a good start. Something has always been wrong with me, too. We're in a club of sorts, the lunatic fringe who are proud to band together. There's a joyous road to ruin out there, and if you let me be your garbage guru, I'll teach you how to succeed in insanity and take control of your low self-esteem. Personality disorders are a terrible thing to waste.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

I'm rich! I don't mean money-wise. I mean that I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That's rich.

Sometimes, it's really important to move with all deliberate speed. If there is something out there that you want to do to make the world a better place, don't focus on the obstacles. Don't ask for permission. Just dive in. Don't let the naysayers get you down.

literacy is as vital as food, security, limiting population growth, and control of the environment. Education, after all, is the one issue that affects every other one. I think of it in the same way as dropping a pebble into a pond and getting a ripple effect. Educated people make more money and are more likely to escape poverty. Educated parents raise healthier children. ...The list goes on, just as ripples in a body of water emanate outward.

a line from Søren Kierkegaard appeared on the first page to which I flipped: "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." I

What struck me first was the UN's estimate that 850 million people in the world lacked basic literacy. I had to read the number three times to convince myself that it was not too large to be true. The world's population was around 6 billion people. That meant one out of every seven human beings lacked the ability to read or write a simple sentence.

Of the 850 million lacking basic literacy, the UN estimated that two-thirds were women. This had a terrible carryover effect, as it's typically the women who are rearing the family's children. If the mother is educated, it is much more likely that education will be passed on to the next generation.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.

Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.

The worst things you can do for the ones you love are the things they could and should do for themselves"—and

Before You Can Lead Others, You Must Be Able to Lead Yourself.

Go Out of Your Way to Praise Those "Quiet" Performers Who Make Things Happen.

Organizations Succeed When They Become More Than the Sum of Their Players. That's one of the real tests of any leader, making the whole more than the sum of its parts. No team will consistently succeed unless the leader is able to achieve this critical goal.

And that, in my opinion, is the first goal of leadership—namely, getting the very best out of the people in your organization, whether they have talent to spare or are spare on talent.

Be true to yourself. You know what's right. Don't let someone else decide for you.

Why can't we realize that it only weakens those we want to help when we do things for them that they should do for themselves?

Commend, Don't Criticize

For the strength of the pack is the wolf; and the strength of the wolf is the pack." —Rudyard Kipling