Quotes About Empowerment

When I put God first, God takes care of me and energizes me to do what really needs to be done.

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

Whatever He commands, He enables; and His grace always gives before it requires.

If every American school taught the Bill of Rights in a clear and compelling way, if every child knew the fundamental rules that guide the relationships between the individual and the state, then every citizen would eventually feel the reflexive need to resist every violation. We had better begin now, for rights that are not invoked are eventually abandoned.

Healing doesn't mean the loss didn't happen. It means that it no longer controls us.

but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

I can help, but in the end it is up to you

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

He says, for example, that "the snowy Alps were visible in the distance from the camp, but no one was able to muster it within himself to give any thought to how beautiful they really are; this can only be done by one who is able to look at the world with the eyes of a man, not a slave." Majdanski

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time. She became positively lethal.

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time.

Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

We'll never let him do that to you again. Never.

Hay que dejar que los talentos decidan la orientación del trabajo y no al revés, decía.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

To be a free man, one must have a universe of one's own

There will always be a storm. You may be rained on or cause the rain yourself. I much prefer the latter.

Dehumanization isn't a way of talking. It's a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us. Dehumanization is a scourge, and has been so for millennia. It acts as a psychological lubricant, dissolving our inhibitions and inflaming our destructive passions. As such, it empowers us to perform acts that would, under other circumstances, be unthinkable.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

While those of us in schools may wish to blame others for imposing constraints, many of our constraints are self imposed. Are we able to escape from these and respond to what we believe is best for our students? One

One way to curtail men's proprietary mindset is to empower women -a trend that started with first-wave feminists who ushered in women's right to vote and continues today with women's increasing access to their own resources-.

We are free at last to believe in ourselves.

Who ever told you that you could work with men?