Quotes About Empowerment

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

The hardest thing about being a manager is realizing that your people will not do things the way that you would. But get used to it. Because if you try to force them to, then two things happen. They become resentful — they don't want to do it. And they become dependent — they can't do it. Neither of these is terribly productive for the long haul.

to encourage people to take responsibility for who they really are. And it is the only way to show respect for each person. Focusing on strengths is the storyline that explains all their efforts as managers.

every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

So this is (a manager's) dilemma: The manager must retain control and focus people on performance. But she is bound by her belief that she cannot force everyone to perform the same way. ... The solution is as elegant as it is efficient: Define the right outcomes and let each person find his own route toward these outcomes.

Black men, you were once great; you will be great again. Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.

One God, One Aim, One Destiny. (Motto of the UNIA)

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

Africans are raising the cry of "AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS", those at home and those abroad.

Hail! United States of Africa-free! Country of the brave black man's liberty; State of greater nationhood thou hast won, A new life for the race is just begun.

Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and in peace, whose lustre and bravery outshine that of any other people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves?

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

melanin currently worth over $380 a gram more than gold that makes Black people black;

It falls to our lot to tear off the shackles that bind Mother Africa. Can you do it?

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.