Quotes About Empowerment

Embrace personal culture shifts. Look at every experience as something that happens for you, not to you.

Embracing experiences as opportunities allows us to bring fresh perspectives to the party. And that can be incredibly empowering.

Seek out incremental wins. Instead of immediately revolutionizing the company, start small and crush a few things first; once you've earned trust, you will garner bigger responsibilities and influence.

Mentorship is Instrumental.

Mentorship is the greatest level of leadership maturity there is.

Embrace mentorship. Rely on others to assist you, provide feedback, challenge your thinking and celebrate you; this is one of the greatest growth paths for leaders.

Don't wait to be reminded to focus on your own development.

Be the accelerant. You have the power to light up the cultural flame of the company. It's not going to happen because of programs, processes, tools, branding or the product itself; focus on the culture and light it up!

Own the place. Act as if you started (or own) the business; this will create added focus, commitment, inspiration and guidance to crafting the right culture.

You can be the catalyst that sparks a cultural flame.

The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

Leaders have a disproportionate impact on the energy of others.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

If America spent as much money offering opportunities to every sixteen- to twenty-six-year-old as we spend locking them up for minor offenses that further cut them off from a positive future, we could end poverty in a generation or two. When young people find a true pathway to opportunity and a caring community, they become excellent parents determined to give their children the world of opportunities they lacked in their own childhood." It

When you create a setting where your people see that their efforts are contributing to a positive outcome well beyond what they could achieve individually, they will be more motivated and find greater meaning in what they do.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

That taught me that there are people for places, places for people. You can do some things and you can't do other things. Don't get all upset about the things you can't do. If you can't do something, pay someone else who can and don't worry about it.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.