Quotes About Empowerment

Stop looking all over the place for "the answers" - whatever they are - and start looking for the questions - the inquiries which are most important in your life, and give them answers. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it.

Twenty-two-year-old Ona Judge, who was Martha Washington's personal servant, escaped from the President and First Lady of the United States in Philadelphia in 1796 after learning she was to be given away as a wedding gift. She married a free black man in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and managed to avoid falling prey to the attempts at recapture that George Washington attempted against her until he died in 1799.

No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.

You'll need to drop the model of self-alienation that you learned as a child—the one that tells you, "You are lazy and need someone to force you to work.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.

In most cases you are the one who confuses just doing the job with testing your worth. Replace 'I have to' with 'I choose to'.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

Listen, I speak from experience when I say . . . just because some man doesn't have one does not necessarily mean that he can't be one.

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

Admito que es un tanto injusto esperar que los educadores encuentren, por sí solos, relatos que puedan reafirmar nuestra cultura nacional. Unas narraciones así deben llegarles, hasta cierto punto, de la esfera política. Si nuestra política está empobrecida simbólicamente, resulta difícil imaginar cómo pueden proporcionar los profesores un objetivo de peso a la educación.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

The fruit of the Spirit is not spouse control or staff control or environmental control; it is self-control (see Gal. 5:23).

We already have all the power we need, because of our position in Christ.

If you make your own rules in life, rather than going by those laid down by others, you find that it becomes a lot more enjoyable.

Welfare mothers make better lovers

The kids I've seen make it have followed various trajectories, but they all have a consistent relationship with at least one trusted adult.

never get hurt for few people who don't love you ,turn around and you will see a million of them who cares for you

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.