Empowered Quotes - Page 6

• When the time came to say, "Mom, I want to do this as a job," it was brutal. She was really against it. There were screaming matches. Some people are shut down by that and get defeated by it, and other people are empowered by the negativity. My father kind of encouraged me through that.

  David Copperfield

  Mom, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the beginning no power differential existed between male and female. God empowered both with full rights and responsibility to rule outward over all creation, not over each other. As we know all too well, the fall changed everything, precipitating male rule over women and also the rule of some men over other men, a.k.a., patriarchy. Within patriarchy, women no longer derive their value from their Creator, but from men - father, husband, and sons. Within patriarchy, a woman's value is gauged by counting her sons.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Husband, Father, Fall

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Men, Issues, Community

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• I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

  Scott Ritter

  Believe, Needs, Shut Up

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• Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

  Wallace Stegner

  Writing, Practice, Skills

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• I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

  Lady Gaga

  Men, Always Trying, Want

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• The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Dog, Children

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

  Lois Lowry

  Father, Lying, Knowing

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.

  Ursula Burns

  Believe, Achieve, Barriers

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• Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on the fire escape. I read at the dinner table. I read late into the night in my room. This unhindered foraging and feasting on books - away from controlling, condemning eyes - empowered me to identify and resist misogyny, xenophobia, shadism, and other forms of injustice.

  Mitali Perkins

  Book, Home, Eye

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Power, Rare Person

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.67, Hay House, Inc

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• The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.

  Franz Liszt

  Law, Foundation, Thrones

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• It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an accepted element of the locker room culture and homophobic language a coach’s motivational tool, we can never dismiss the courage it takes for an athlete-on any level-to be openly gay. Bobby Blair may not be a household name, but his journey-from frightened collegiate athlete to empowered advocate-is one that has an important lesson for anyone who believes in the unifying power of sports.

  LZ Granderson

  Sports, Believe, Athlete

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• You are afraid of your own empowerment
  as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered.

  Caroline Myss

  Empowerment, Becoming

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• Whenever you become empowered,
  you will be tested.

  Caroline Myss

  Tested

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2013

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• The forgiving heart is capable of anything.
  I believe that deeply.
  And that's where in terms of becoming an empowered individual....
  when you get to the point where you realize you can look at someone and say
  “I love myself enough -
  not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff,
  I'm talking respect myself -
  I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

  Caroline Myss

  Believe, Heart, Talking

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• We the voters demand the right to be in charge here, to be informed, to be empowered.

  Jill Stein

  Demand, Voters

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• By doing that [ saying no boots on the ground], she [Hillary Clinton] has empowered the enemy, she's empowered the enemy.

  Donald Trump

  Enemy, Boots, Saying No

  Source: time.com

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• Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me. But now I have no hair to wash men out of when I go through a breakup, so I'm going to have to get a new tattoo or something when that happens.

  Betty Who

  Tattoo, Breakup, Cutting

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Powerful, Thinking, Views

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Press conference, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.

  Tilda Swinton

  Encouragement, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Leader, Trying, Adults

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN / The president of the Children's Defense Fund -- the nation's largest lobbying group for young people -- talks about the `hundred-front war' in this budget-cutting era". Interview with Teresa Moore, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 1996.

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• So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Trying, Would Be

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• Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Leader, Honest, Authority

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• The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

  Caroline Myss

  Long, Goal, World

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Invisible Acts of Power: The Divine Energy of a Giving Heart”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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