Quotes About Empowerment

Stop Trying to Control the Outcome Focus on Your Behavior and Actions Instead

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world, and as you walk through those doors today, you will only have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

I feel that we're all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

Life doesn't happen to you. It happens for you.

Determined people working together can do anything.

God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it

There will be more Christlikeness in us only when we humble ourselves and say, 'God, I can't live the life you meant for me on my own. I don't have the love, wisdom, or power. But come, Holy Spirit, and pour it into me. Teach me what it means to walk in the Spirit.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

art"? Simply stated, give control away when you don't need it, so you can get some back when you do!

This is the cardinal rule for grades and report cards: Parents don't get report cards—kids do.

The best solution to any problem lies within the skin of the person who rightfully owns the problem.

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

Serving others prepares you to lead others.

The organization must respect its people, continually educating, training, challenging, and empowering them. Any organization that thinks itself Lean has to see its people as its most prized asset, and this asset must be stimulated, celebrated, and compensated properly.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

In high-performance teams, "the leaders managed the principles, and the principles managed the team.

In an agile project the team takes care of the tasks and the project leader takes care of the team.

In a self-organized team, individuals take accountability for managing their own workload, shift work among themselves based on need and best fit, and take responsibility for team effectiveness. Team members have considerable leeway in how they deliver results, they are self-disciplined in their accountability for those results, and they work within a flexible framework.

Leaders who want to create adaptive, self-organizing teams steer rather than control—they influence, nudge, facilitate, teach, recommend, assist, urge, counsel, and, yes, direct in some instances.

Dialogue, discussion, and participatory decision making are all part of building self-discipline.

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

Aspire to be the leader your team wants and the brand deserves.

Whatever your level of leadership, use your influence to move the company from strategy-based to culture-focused.

The greatest accelerant to a cultural flame is leadership.