Empowerment Quotes - Page 9

• Acceptance is not a talent you either have or don't have. It's a learned response. My meditation teacher made a great point about the difference between a reaction and a response: You may not have control over your initial reaction to something, but you can decide what your response will be. You don't have to be at the mercy of your emotions, and acceptance can be your first step toward empowerment . . . For me, acceptance has been the cornerstone to my having an emotionally healthy response to my illness.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Teacher, Acceptance, Differences

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment, that is, envying and imitating not only males, but male fools, judging inner worth by outer performance, sacrificing being for doing, finding their identity in their worldly careers, not in their inner essence, in their physical and spiritual wombs and motherhoods. This is what Karl Stern called "the flight from woman."

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Real, Sacrifice

  51 Copy quote

• I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth rather than on these big deals that have been characteristic of this process in the past, of people going to banks, borrowing a lot of money, buying this and when the shares don't perform very well, the shares go back to the banks, because there's other people who own this anyway. I think we need to re-focus it so that it really does impact on growth, new investment, new employment and a general, better spread of wealth in South Africa.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Past, Thinking, Impact

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.

  Annie Lennox

  Strong Women, Mean, Opportunity

  "Annie Lennox Raises Her Voice". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2008.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

  George Carlin

  Country, Men, Psychics

  "You Are All Diseased". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool. I didn't want to go, because I've put on like a hundred pounds.

  Wendy Liebman

  Psychics, Want, Pounds

  8 Copy quote

• For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

  Mae West

  Psychics, Long, Reform

  62 Copy quote

• Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.

  Keith Ellison

  Fighting, Years, Justice

  Source: www.npr.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

  Ezra Pound

  Psychics, Mediocre

  Ezra Pound (1992). “A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!

  Sid Caesar

  Psychics, Ifs

  15 Copy quote

• Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Passion, Psychics, Making Love

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Passion”, p.2, Dell

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Men

  29 Copy quote

• Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do without. To be passionate is as natural to you as breathing, as natural as being alive. It is the source of who you are.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Passion, Psychics, Breathing

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Passion”, p.15, Dell

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization.

  Manning Marable

  Organization, Political, Black

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dreams are essential to life.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Dream, Psychics

  6 Copy quote

• I brought Bhagawad Gita as a gift for the Japanese PM...I don't have anything better than Gita to give & nor does the World has anything better to receive.

  Narendra Modi

  Pms, Giving, India

  12 Copy quote

• I prefer the word "engagement." Instead of empowerment, it's enabling women to engage in business.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Engagement, Enabling

  Source: www.pbs.org

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Successful

  32 Copy quote

• You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and self-empowerment seminars. There's a hope for a quick fix - if only we have the money and right drugs for it.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Party, Yoga, Self

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think books can give rise to empowerment.

  Ilyasah Shabazz

  Book, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the disciples needed to be so endued and to preach the gospel with the Holy Spirit and with the manifestation of the Almighty, are we better than them able to carry on God's work without the empowerment they had?

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Able, Spirit, Holy

  68 Copy quote

• Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets.

  Johanna Sigurðardottir

  Men, Keys, Goal

  10 Copy quote

• Obviously, the 'Glow' show is a real feminist story. I knew it would be about female empowerment, and that was really exciting to me. Having some distance on a period show, I think you can really delve into those kinds of political topics in an in-depth way, and a lot of that reverberates today.

  Alison Brie

  Real, Distance, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.

  Jack Canfield

  Giving, And Love, Undivided Attention

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Nov 02, 2010

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some husbands think, "This is my wife," or a parent thinks "This is my child." From a spiritual perspective, this is a misconception. The higher truth is: "This wife is God's beloved daughter, entrusted in my care. And the way I serve God is by giving her respect, protection, appreciation and empowerment. This is what God wants me to give his child."

  Radhanath Swami

  Daughter, Spiritual, Appreciation

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source