Quotes About Empowerment

Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

It all began with a dozen men and a handful of women: and then the Spirit came.

Back in 1903, Thomas Edison predicted that the "doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of [the] human frame in diet and in the cause and prevention of diseases.

Maybe it's time we stop blaming genetics and focus on the more than 70 percent that is directly under our control.

When it comes to safe, simple lifestyle prescriptions, I'm realizing it may be more effective to empower individuals directly.

7 Just as you don't have to wait for your physician to tell you to stop smoking, you don't have to wait to start eating healthier

CHIP doesn't provide meals—just advice and encouragement, empowering people with knowledge.2505 Within a month on the program, blood sugars, cholesterol, and blood pressures dropped enough for many participants to drop their antidiabetic, cholesterol-lowering, and blood pressure–lowering medications. Better numbers on fewer drugs, along with an average six-pound weight loss.

Maybe it's time we stop blaming genetics and focus on the more than 70 percent that is directly under our control.53 We have the power.

Your family history does not have to become your personal destiny. Just

Boys must find ways to compete and see themselves as performing well. If they do not, if society does not provide them with these opportunities, they'll compete against society itself, abusing their community and themselves.

But despite their poverty and their lack of material resources, food, housing, and so forth, the poor do have an enormous wealth in their knowledges and powers of creation.

make that client the hero, not yourself.

2. It serves and inspires other beings and does not take from them or exploit them

The greatest service you can offer the world is to be your own authentic, weird and eccentric self.

You cannot force change in others, you can only inspire change in others by being your awesomely self. The greatest service you can offer the world is to be your own authentic, weird and eccentric self.

Faith comes from having confidence in the universal force that guides us and having confidence in ourselves that we are more then capable.

This kid was writing saying that they were breaking down some of the racial lines in their towns and communities, because their break dance crews were mixed race, and they didn't give a fuck. They didn't care what the Klu Klux Klan said." - Michael Holman (screenwriter, Basquiat) from nthWORD Issue #8, coming soon...

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

You can change your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential.

What other people think about me is not my business.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.