Quotes About Empowerment

Many survivors are so identified with the critic that it becomes their whole identity. Such survivors typically need to focus on fighting off the critic until they have established the healthy ego function of self-protection.

The key point is that these labels are incomplete and unnecessarily shaming descriptions of what the survivor is actually afflicted with.

If you bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will destroy you. —THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS

Children should never be forced to do more than they are willing and able to do.

We have a lot going for us; we can conquer our fears. With the full use of our highly developed ability to think and perceive, we can, through the felt sense, consciously move out of the trauma response.

However, when that same child experiences the triumph of moving out of the fear and frozenness back into life, a very special kind of self-confidence blossoms—the newfound feelings of resiliency and capability.

Children are comforted and empowered by knowing that it won't hurt forever and that you will stay with them until they begin to feel more like themselves again.

I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

As Sheryl Shetsky says to other people who are fighting brain tumors, "Don't try to get back to who you were then. This is likely a new and improved you in many ways; moving on is the way to go.

It is when citizens stop waiting for professionals or elected leadership to do something, and decide they can reclaim what they have delegated to others, that things really happen.

As an individual free to create the world we live in, I carry the cause for how my boss and others respond to and treat me. Once I understand this and stop trying to control them, I can get on with the business of acting on what matters.

The rising tide does not lift all boats. Those at the bottom and at the margin are considered undeserving; they are today's equivalent of scripture's widows, orphans, and immigrants.

Raise the question of what do we want to create together, even for an established institution.

You came back here that day with a word written on your forehead that I could read: 'Succeed! Succeed at any price.' " To which Vautrin responds: "Bravo! That's the kind of fellow I like." (SC 111/P 3:139) To revolt is to take destiny into your own hands by a decisive act.

It is an act of love to say, "I believe in you as my child, and you don't need my help."

Study skills and learning skills are inert until they're powered by an active ingredient," Dweck says. The active ingredient is the simple but nonetheless profound realization that the power to increase your abilities lies largely within your own control.

learning culture places the responsibility for learning with the employees and empowers them to change the system. Problems become information rather than failures. And learning by solving the problems (generation) and by teaching others (elaboration) becomes an engine for continuous improvement of performance by individuals and by the production line that they compose.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.