Quotes About Empowerment

I felt broken at the end of the meeting, but a little closer to being free.

They are the people of Creation. Strong, tall, and mighty people who can bear anything. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong." — 'Breath, Eyes, Memory', Edwidge Danticat

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better....

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

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

You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

For people who had been prohibited from learning to read and write as slaves, reading offered tangible proof that they were really free.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.

People who suffer from learned helplessness think they have no control over their situations, so even if their suffering is great, they won't take the smallest action to change matters because they figure, What's the point?

Rather than resign herself to the fate dictated by her medical history, she has chosen a different, if less probable, outcome—one in which she is a shaman.

I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.