Quotes About Empowerment

Turn your eyes away from fear. Discontinue the conversations of fear if you choose to embrace the fullness of your heart

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Don't resent, fear, or judge the next generation, believe in them.

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.

Fear dims when you learn things.

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people.

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.