Quotes About Empowerment

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.

My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.

I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.

Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.