Quotes About Empowerment

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself . . . and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

It is the women who are responsible for bringing along the next generation to carry the culture forward.

Women can help turn the world right side up. We bring a more collaborative approach to government. And if we do not participate, then decisions will be made without us.

Women can help turn the world right side up. We bring a more collaborative approach to government. And if we do not participate, then decisions will be made without us. Wilma Mankiller, Denver, September 1984

Despite everything, they tend to view economic poverty as a barrier and a challenge, not a state of being.

From now on you will eat nothing." Coming-from-the-Water took a skunk skin, slit it, and draped it around Sam's shoulders and chest. "Come," called Bell Rock. A half-dozen men came in, some carrying drums. Immediately, they started a song. "Attention," said Bell Rock. Sam sank his mind into the music. From within the music, he only half-noticed what was done. Bell Rock painted

when you drank, you lost control of your spirit. You had no power and no connection to Power.

Ultimately, you will learn to consult your greater resources so easily and quickly that you will be able to do so as quickly as an eye blink in the middle of a conversation, with no one else noticing.

One crucial fact often gets overlooked in laments about the electronic assault on your ability to focus: your machines are not in charge of what you attend to—you are. When they prove distracting, you have only to turn them off.

I'm Short and fat and proud of that!!

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches you nothing but the shape of the spoon .

We do emphasize the matter of working with God and not working for God by our own strength. Yes, we should work with God and even by God. But

Grace is not only something given by God, but it is God Himself doing things for us. Grace is not merely something objective that is given to us by God. Grace is God Himself coming to us and doing things for us. Are you weak? God will come to be your strength, and that coming of God is grace. Are you unable to face your situation? That need not be a problem, because God will come to stand with you and face that situation for and in you. This is grace.

We should pray adequately to be filled with God, to receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Then when we come to the meeting, in a sense, we may not need to speak that much.

The energizing element of Christ is a supply, a factor, for us to live Christ.

Don't change the beggar into a conqueror, because it was the beggar who led you to conquest.

Well, anybody who cannot embrace the power of Internet is just limiting themselves.

make strong women weak and weak men strong

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.