Quotes About Empowerment

It is not self defining but by You

No, you stupid idiot, there's nothing wrong with you. You're perfect.

She didn't like being stuck indoors because of a bully.

If you want to get out of that crib, stand up and be an American.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

I could, for the first time in maybe thirty years, make my own decision, trust it, and move forward.

So maybe you should try to find an answer for yourself instead of waiting around to see what Sam's going to do. Doing something is always easier than waiting.

Exercising will builds esteem from within through action on one's own behalf; it disproves the premise that only another person can provide it. The result, long in coming and always worth the effort, is the experience of authentic agency in your own life, a sense of self that cannot be destroyed because it is not dependent on anyone else.

The key to coping with questionable emotions is knowing that we are in control of them, and not the other way around.

The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.

he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

There are plenty of people holding flashlights casting shadows, offering directions. Perhaps it's best if you light your own way.

You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.

Think for yourself. That's the golden rule. Think for yourself. Make it your mantra. Tattoo it on the inside of your eyelids.

If you do not trust your people, you will not get their whole-hearted effort and you will not capitalize on the enormous creative potential of cohesive and motivated teamwork. It

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.