Quotes About Empowerment

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

When spider webs unite, they tie up a lion.' When you liberate your willpower, you become the master of your personal world.

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.' Become a bigger person and you'll also automatically become a better leader—and a greater producer.

No matter how terrifying, they need to decide that the only rules that matter are the ones they write themselves.

They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong.

Now I wonder, Nicki said. Didn't we all? What it would be like to be one of them, to have power, be seen, be heard, be dude rather than sluts, be jocks or geeks, or bros or nice guys, or boys will be boys, or whatever we wanted instead of quantum leaping between good girl and whore. To be the default, not the exception, to be in control, to seize control, simply because we happen to have a dick.

Girls had to believe in everything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.

Never be sorry, never be frightened, never be careful - those were the rules of Lacey. Play by the rules, win the game: Never be alone.

We're Freak the Mighty, that's who we are. We're nine feet tall, in case you haven't noticed." That's how it started, really, how we got to be Freak the Mighty, slaying dragons and fools and walking high above the world.

Women were especially drawn to Christianity because it offered them a life that was so greatly superior to the life they otherwise would have led.

And this is when I knew I was black for real. This is when I knew black was a city whose walls were constantly under siege....

But even in the worst of such circumstances, people can't move forward if they just sit around feeling powerless and blaming others for their misery.

Remember, getting stuck in the victim cycle is not bad, it's just not effective. It keeps you from getting results.

They view painful situations as accidents, bad luck, or something that was done to them. But many of the problems we face in life are not accidents. Most of the time our problems are ones we bring on ourselves. This is why learning to Own It is so important.

Asking "What else can I do?" is the very essence of taking accountability and is the Solve It question. It's all about your ability to engage personally, and deeply, with what you can and should be doing, despite the gravitational tug from all the reasons/excuses that can drag you down Below The Line.

There is an expiry date for blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

What else can I do? are perhaps the five most powerful words anyone can say

Instead of trying to get people to work harder, make their job easier.

Break the vicious cycle by refusing to react. Instead of pushing back, sidestep their attack and deflect it against the problem. As in the Oriental martial arts of judo and jujitsu, avoid pitting your strength against theirs directly; instead, use your skill to step aside and turn their strength to your ends. Rather than resisting their force, channel it into exploring interests, inventing options for mutual gain, and searching for independent standards.

A compact organization lets all of us spend our time managing the business rather than managing each other.

Top-down solutions have a tendency to confiscate problems from those whose problems they are.

Liberté has been bureaucratised in the sense that it doesn't any more represent the freedom of people to break out, to do the thing that they really want to do. Rather it's conceived as a form of empowerment – the state gives you this in the form of vouchers or privileges, privileges, for example, that you might have as a gay, or a woman, or an ethnic minority.

There is, in the circumstances of modern life, only one solution to the problem of resentment, and that is social mobility. The worst thing that the state can do is to create those traps – the poverty trap, the welfare trap, the education trap – which deprive people of the motives and the skills to improve their lot, and retain them in a state of permanent discontented dependence on a world that they cannot fully enter. In

I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted.