Empowering Quotes - Page 4

• We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Nice, Machines, Too Much

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• I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Sad, Women

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• Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Running, Country, Strong Women

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• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Girl, Sexy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

  Erma Bombeck

  Motivation, Women, Sleep

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.

  Stephen Covey

  Focus, Principles, Monitoring

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.

  Sonia Choquette

  Positivity, Use, Inspirational Women

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• What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Anne Frank (2017). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.143, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Women, Generosity

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.36, American Foundation for the Blind

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  When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

  Audre Lorde

  Strong Women, Honesty, Silence

  Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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  If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Women, Hard Times

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• For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

  Christian Louboutin

  Stupid, Men, High Heels

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• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  Zoe Saldana

  Women, Latin, Thinking

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• The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

  Audre Lorde

  Our World, Differences, Feminist

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Girl

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

  Abigail Adams

  Wedding, Husband, Women

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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• I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

  Jeb Bush

  People, Parent, Passionate

  "A Q&A With Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush". Interview with John O'Connor, stateimpact.npr.org. June 11, 2012.

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