Quotes About Empowerment

You don't get the best out of people by hitting them with an iron rod. You do so by gaining their respect, getting them accustomed to triumphs and convincing them that they are capable of improving their performance.

Young people will always manage to achieve the impossible–whether that is on the football field or inside a company or other big organisation. If I were running a company, I would always want to listen to the thoughts of its most talented youngsters, because they are the people most in touch with the realities of today and the prospects for tomorrow.

If you hope to motivate people, you need to know when to prey on their insecurities and when to bolster their self-confidence. People perform best when they know they have earned the trust of their leader.

I realise that we're shaped by lots of other forces beyond just watching, listening and reading. We're all accidental victims of our parents' DNA; we are shaped by the luck of the draw, the circumstances in which we grew up and the education we received. But we all have two sets of very powerful tools that we completely control: our eyes and our ears. Watching others, listening to their advice and reading about people are three of the best things I ever did.

Effective delegation depends on the ability of others to make decisions. Some people can make decisions, others cannot. It

Effective delegation depends on the ability of others to make decisions. Some people can make decisions, others cannot. It just doesn't work if you are congenitally hesitant and allow things to linger in a state of suspension.

Los mejores jefes también se enorgullecen de que los empleados que hayan trabajado bien y quieran irse, lo hagan a puestos mejores y más importantes.

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

Everyone can use a little beauty.

You have to avoid thinking of what upsets you. If not, it will take over your life.

You can't respect yourself if you're letting someone beat you up–inside or out.

The word felt good, liberating. So, I repeat it. "Fuck." Then, again. And again. Because it made me someone else, someone normal and happy, someone who used words like that, like St. John. I repeated it, over and over until she walked away, wounded. Then, I was glad. And still, I kept repeating it, because that was the only thing that kept me from crying.

Somewhere down the road...I hope you find [that girls] don't all have the same thing between their ears. The good ones don't put up with macho mind games.

Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly, "Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee." (Behold—the only thing greater than yourself.)

You should never deny who you are to please someone else. If that's the choice, then it's not meant to be.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.

When we complain, we hold whatever or whoever we're complaining about as a shield. We therefore perpetuate victimization and helplessness.

Man is not free from conditions. But he is free to take a stand in regard to them. The conditions do not completely condition him.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness. I

1. We choose a positive attitude about the situation at hand. 2. We choose to visualize what's possible to deal with the situation at hand. 3. We choose an attitude that generates passion for the action that makes the possible become a reality.

Frankl's key message that we always have the ability to respond to anything that comes our way in life by exercising our capacity to find meaning. Life doesn't just happen to us—we are responsible for our own lives, and it is up to us, like Frankl was able to do even in the Nazi death camps, to actively find meaning in our lives. We cannot be victims, we cannot be passive participants in life and, most of all, we cannot be prisoners of our thoughts!

Entre el estímulo y la respuesta hay un espacio. En ese espacio reside nuestra libertad y nuestra capacidad de elegir nuestra respuesta. En nuestra respuesta radica nuestro crecimiento y nuestra felicidad.»

He lays on Peter: "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." Jesus expects the frail disciple to become strong in grace, and so able and willing to help the weak. He cherishes this expectation with respect to all, but specially in regard to Peter, assuming that the weakest might and ought eventually to become the strongest; the last first, the greatest sinner the greatest saint; the most foolish the wisest, most benignant, and sympathetic of

Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?