Quotes About Empowerment

Julia hated to see nervous children. She wanted to go to her, give her an inspirational talk—explain that life changes, and what is weak becomes strong, and what is a dream becomes a reality that requires a new dream.

I had to do it for myself.

I have already told you Father, more than once: I'm not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I'm not going to bury myself in some planter's kitchen, and I'm not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

La libertad consiste en ser capaz de elegir entre lo que es posible para mí y hacerme responsable de mi elección.

Cuanto más te muestre de mí y más te escuche, más voy a saber de mí. Y cuanto más sepa de mí, de mejores maneras voy a estar a cargo de mi persona. Y cuanto mejor esté a cargo de mi persona, menos dependiente seré del afuera.

Y si la libertad no existiera, no existiría la autonomía. Y si la autonomía no existiera, no existiría la autodependencia. Y si la autodependencia no existiera, y sabiendo que no la independencia tampoco existe, no nos quedaría otra posibilidad que la dependencia...

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El 73 % de todo el trabajo (físico e intelectual) que se hace en el mundo está en manos femeninas, pero... los hombres cobran todavía el 75 % de la suma total de los salarios.

Mi historia personal puede condicionar mi elección, pero no me quita la posibilidad de elegir.

Siempre hago lo que me da la gana, fui voluntariosa desde chiquita

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Mi carne puede tener miedo; yo, no.

I leave nothing for nobody.

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.

sono certo, certissimo, che un uomo che legge poesia si fa sconfiggere meno facilmente di uno che non la legge.

this is not the time to become lost in sorrow. We must do something and not just wait to be victims.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.