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Quotes About Empowerment

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
~ Steve Wozniak
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.
~ John D. Rockefeller
When you doubt your powers, you power your doubts
~ Brian Oldfield
There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.
~ Simon Sinek
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.
~ Helen Keller
We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited.
~ Michael Beckwith
To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.
~ Melissa Etheridge
It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!
~ Gertrude Mongella
Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.
~ Malcolm X
You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.
~ Obert Skye
The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.
~ Laurie Penny
There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.
~ Fred Alan Wolf
The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.
~ Marcus Garvey
They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately, have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how much to eat.
~ Michael Moss
I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.
~ Gloria Steinem
Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!
~ Susan Jeffers
You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.
~ Susan Piver
Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people.
~ Michael N. Nagler
For we put the power in the people.
~ William Penn
Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.
~ Midori Goto
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
~ Lauren Myracle
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
~ Jennifer O'Neill
Power to the peaceful!
~ Michael Franti