Empowering Quotes - Page 11

• May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

  Marianne Williamson

  Revenge, Kindness, Compassion

  29 Copy quote

• Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Maturity, Waiting

  "The Writer's Workout: 366 Tips, Tasks, & Techniques From Your Writing Career Coach". Book by Christina Katz, 2011.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

  10 Copy quote

• If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Cute, Witty

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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

  Marianne Williamson

  Power, World, Illusion

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.7, Ballantine Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Peace, Keys, Extending

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.29, Random House

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Success, Jobs

  62 Copy quote

• The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Democracy, Groups, Facts

  4 Copy quote

• I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Home, Fighting

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

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Equality, Feminist

  "Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air.

  Tim Wise

  Air, Growth, Example

  28 Copy quote

• Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

  John Piper

  Believe, Enjoy, Feels

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.2, Multnomah

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

  Adrienne Rich

  Peace, Ubuntu, People

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

  Toni Morrison

  Jobs, Freedom, Real

  115 Copy quote

• A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

  John Wayne

  Strong Women, Empowerment, Conservative

  17 Copy quote

• Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Stupid, Fall

  4 Copy quote

• Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

  Brennan Manning

  Forgiving, Reckless, Source

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.49, NavPress

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

  Jordan Belfort

  Motivational, Success, Live Your Life

  Twitter post from Jun 02, 2015

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse - we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.

  Joel Salatin

  Philosophy, Mcdonalds, Law

  "No Bar Code" by Michael Pollan, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2006.

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Believe, Fall

  4 Copy quote

• You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Inspiration, Worry, Finding Love

  8 Copy quote

• You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

  Zadie Smith

  Land, Despair, Stronger

  "White Teeth: A Novel". Book by Zadie Smith, June 12, 2001.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Spiritual, Men

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

  Michael Pollan

  Philosophy, Needs, Information

  6 Copy quote