Quotes About Empowerment

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

We are the wings of our thoughts.

We have agreed to be equal in all rights and responsibilities. How much equal, we have yet to set.

CIO leaders must, above all, lead. And lead does not mean manage.

Fear traps your mind.

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

Really, you don't have to—

We empower ourselves through knowledge.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.

Would that I were a man,'" I said, quoting Sarpalyce's legend. "Except that I do not wish I were a man. I only wish that being a woman did not limit me so.

That should be my epitaph when I die 'she did not have to do it'.

One benefit of being an old woman now, and moreover one who has been called a "national treasure," is that there are very few who can tell me what I may and may not write.

A widow has freedoms a wife does not. But when I look at you, I do not see obstacles for my career, I see-" My face burned even more. "I see wings. A way to fly higher and further than I can on my own.