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Quotes About Empowerment

Democracy is self-creating coherence.
~ Mary Parker Follett
To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.
~ K. Eric Drexler
Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...
~ Dante Alighieri, Paradiso
Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you.
~ Boonaa Mohammed
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.
~ Rumi
Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.
~ Habeeb Akande
To belittle, you have to be little.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.
~ David Walker
Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.
~ Stacy London
If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.
~ Geneen Roth
It's not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.
~ Gavin de Becker
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain
Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
~ Gautama Buddha
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.
~ Geneen Roth
Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.
~ Julian Assange
To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.
~ John Keats
There is nothing more powerful than kindness.
~ Mary Carillo
When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.
~ Tara Brach
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.
~ Beth Ditto
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
~ Eric Hoffer