Quotes About Empowerment

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.