Quotes About Empowerment

All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.

When we continue to do things for our children that they could do for themselves, we are unintentionally robbing them of opportunities to become self-reliant and confident. Doing for our children what they can do for themselves also sends them a negative message either that we think they can't do it, or that they don't have to do it.

too much debt is not a permanent state of being for those willing to invest in themselves and change their circumstances.

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

We were each other's armor. And in that moment, we each became the other's lance, sword, and shield.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women." [ Commencement Address , Wellesley College, 1996]

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him

You could do anything, anything you want with your life.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

Think of what's scary in a movie… The unseen, the imagined, is always more frightening than what's graphically portrayed.The same holds true in your head. Face your fear, step into it, look at it head-on and it will diminish in stature, lose its hold on your imagination. But run, and it'll grow wings, breather fire, and fly after you.

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Men's healing is in women's interest, though for women that healing will mean accepting on some level not only that men are—here is the dreaded word—victims of the patriarchy, too, but (and this will be the hardest part to swallow) that women have been codeterminers in the system, at times as invested and active as men themselves in making and keeping men in their role.

Rule #1: Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.

She doesn't realize it, but she steers others in a good direction.

Don't tell them how to do it!  Just teach them the principles of Lean, challenge them, and let them do it."   John Miller – Gemba Research

The Harada Method is the Human Side of Lean.

Self-reliance is the autonomy of individuals to navigate issues as they arise, control his or her own path, and sustain the resources to get there.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.

Trust your own eyes. Only you can determine what is happening in your life and what to do about it. The