Empowering Quotes

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  I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.

  Marci Shimoff

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Hurt

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Spiritual, Inspiration

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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

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• People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

  Salma Hayek

  Inspirational, Beauty, Love Yourself

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

  Indira Gandhi

  Inspirational, Freedom, Women

  "The Embattled Woman Who Relishes Crosswords, Children...and Running India". People Magazine, June 30, 1975.

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• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Love Is, Bridges

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  The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sad

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• If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

  Margaret Sanger

  Strong Women, Courage, Struggle

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

  John Sununu

  Children, Real, Wealth

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• For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

  Mel Carnahan

  Successful, Organization, Effort

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• I think that certainly my choices empower me.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Thinking, Choices

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• I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

  Kenny Marchant

  Friendship, Men, People

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• We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.

  Robin Hayes

  Dream, Jobs, Opportunity

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• One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

  Christine Gregoire

  Powerful, Community, Quality

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• Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Believe, Government, Degrees

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• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

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• We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

  Virginia Satir

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  "Magic Touch: Six Things You Can Do to Connect in a Disconnected World" by Carolyn Rosenblatt, www.forbes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

  Tom Ridge

  Inspiring, Leadership, Team

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• Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

  Audre Lorde

  Conquer, Divide And Conquer, Divides

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

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