Quotes About Empowerment

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect." ? Rob Reiner

Passion makes others feel like they are working not for someone but, rather, with others—and working for something bigger than the individuals involved.

Last, you've got to do more leading and less managing. Be a visible and motivating presence.

This is what they call "hitting rock bottom," and they call it that because it rocks.

Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

My limits are of my own making, and are there for the breaking

We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the books of law' - to embody justice and equality in legislation.

Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy's sacred curtain behind them, placed their hands upon the lever that gave them a hold on their own destiny, made them, at last and forever, a true part of American political life.

democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders;

Avoid the trap of seeing your errors as catastrophic and your limitations as defining.

Many of these mothers raised their daughters to not need a man. At

Decisions are now made by one individual, rather than by a committee. He no longer has to mind read, predict, or try to please multiple voices with conflicting agendas. When putting himself first all the information he needs to make a decision is within him: "Is this what I want? Yes. Then that's what I'll do.

I define masculinity as that part of a man that equips him to survive as an individual, clan, and species. Without this masculine energy we would have all become extinct eons ago. Masculinity empowers a man to create and produce. It also empowers him provide for and protect those who are important to him.

handing his paycheck over to Susan to control, he began giving himself an allowance to spend how he

Since Nice Guys learned to sacrifice themselves in order to survive, recovery must center on learning to put themselves first and making their needs a priority.

define personal power as a state of mind in which a person is confident he can handle whatever may come. This kind of power not only successfully deals with problems, challenges and adversity, it actually welcomes them, meets them head on, and is thankful for them. Personal power isn't the absence of fear. Even the most powerful people have fear. Personal power is the result of feeling fear, but not giving in to the fear.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Open your eyes that you might see that all things are possible through you (with God's help)

You yourself can be god. You really are that, in fact. You, yourself, are reality. You, yourself, are buddha. (p. 18)

The strange thing about the messianic ideal of liberating yourself so that you can free all others is that just trying to adopt it makes you feel happier. Even though you know on some level that there is only so much you can get done in any given period of time, the fact that you do not let go of the determination to do everything gives you immense good cheer. (p. 20)

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.