Quotes About Empowerment

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

In my experience, a mentor doesn't necessarily tell you what to do, but more importantly, tells you what they did or might do, then trusts you to draw your own conclusions and act accordingly. If you succeed, they'll take one step back, and if you screw up, they'll take one step closer. Whatever it is they teach you…pass it on.

This message is so simple, yet it gets forgotten. The people living with the condition are the experts.

releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison in which you're both the inmate and the jailer.

Leaders who promote a questioning culture in their organizations move people from dependence to independence.

The important thing about leadership is not what happens when you're there but what happens when you are not there.

Questioning leaders are realists and don't inflate the importance of their own efforts. They take the time to drill down into problems by asking questions. Questioning leaders recognize that everyone is needed, and that everyone should serve one another, if the organization is to be successful.

In organizations that discourage questions, on the other hand, questions and those who ask them may be seen as threatening. And when questions are not responded to openly or honestly, or are actually rejected, those who ask them can feel put down and marginalized.

I have come to realize that much of my success can be attributed to the fact that I believe in the capacity of the people who have worked with me. I truly think that the leader who tries to know it all and tells everyone what to do is doomed to failure.

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

La capacidad de ascender, al parecer, no depende tanto del deseo de salir de la pobreza como del acceso a la educación, la sanidad y otros recursos que preparan a las personas para tener éxito en el mundo laboral.

Teachers did not give knowledge and wisdom; they merely guided those who sought those things for themselves.

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

What you allow, you encourage.

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

So much water. It just went on and on and on, a sight that squeezed the soul. He felt so damn small out here. And that felt good. Maybe that was strange, but it felt good. He was insignificant. The world was too big to care about his decisions. There was no weight here, no burden.

Smith Wigglesworth exhorted, "Read it through; write it down; pray it in; work it out; pass it on. The Word of God changes a man until he becomes an Epistle of God.

You not trapped girl. Not unless you nailed to the floor.

Those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them.