Quotes About Empowerment

The trick is in what one emphasizes. "The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all." ~Robert T. K.

There is a difference between helping, comforting, feeding, and empowering people. As I've said many times: Simply giving money (or entitlements) to poor people only serves to keep them poor longer.

I want to teach you to master the power of money, instead of being afraid of it. They don't teach that in school and, if you don't learn it, you become a slave to money.

Financial intelligence is simply having more options.

the subject of money is taught at home, not in school.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."104

For the first time, he began calling himself Barack. Partly because a beautiful, older girl told him it was a great name. But also because he now felt that it was a great name, too, a name that belonged to him.

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

When I hear girls I know longing to be what they call liberated, and when I hear others rejoicing in what they think of as liberation, I feel a fool, because I simply do not know where I stand. (Maria Magdalena Theotoky)

Poor woman, I suppose she led a dog's life, and it made her disagreeable, which she mistook for being strong.

Story, it turns out, is the assassin of despair.

I think you're perfect just the way you are. Don't change anything.

You know who you are. You know who God says you are. Live up to that, and it doesn't matter what others think or say.

I'd endured his nonsense as long as I was able before telling him that Mrs. Fournier's life was her own business and that if he wished to make himself useful to me he would point out the sights and explain the things I was seeing.

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.

My father... raised me to make up my own mind. The way he did this was by yielding to me when I asked, even when I was foolish. I lived through it; and I know my own mind; and he will do what I ask him.

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.

buying him clothes to improve his self-image • finding a therapist for him and begging him to go • financing expensive hobbies to help him use his time better • going through disruptive geographic relocations because "he's not happy here" • giving him half or all of our property and possessions so he won't feel inferior to us • providing him with a place to live so that he can feel secure

Robin Norwood

Once you can name something, you're conscious of it. You have power over it. You're in control. You own it.

Many workers are now searching for employers with a mission they can believe in. Whether it is to fight for a political cause, to safeguard the environment, or to help other people overcome life's problems, they select jobs and employers because they feel they can make an important difference by working there.

Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms.

the words you say to yourself affect your self-image