Empowering Quotes - Page 13

• The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

  Carter Heyward

  Peace, Blessing, Creating

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• I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and good citizens to give these children, who are the poorest of the poor, the same opportunity we give our own kids, then I'll feel my life has been worth it.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Children, Book

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• Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

  Barbara Walters

  Inspirational, Women, Acceptance

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• The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfilment.

  Agnivesh

  God, Adventure, Destiny

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.

  Agnivesh

  God, Empowerment, World

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.

  Agnivesh

  God, Spiritual, War

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson's life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors with something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Healing

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• And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Beautiful, Shining

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• Never forget to dream.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Dream, Women

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• One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

  Janelle Monae

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Fashion

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• Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

  Bret Morrison

  Communication, Skills, Available

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• Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Bad Ass, Justice

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.

  Amy Purdy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "'Dancing With the Stars' Amy Purdy Says 'Only True Disability Is in Our Minds'" by Michael Rothman, abcnews.go.com. March 17, 2014.

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• Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

  Tony DiCicco

  Sports, Responsibility, Blame

  Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.123, Penguin

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• Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

  Sue Gunter

  Basketball, Caring, Practice

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• Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.

  Randy Alcorn

  Biblical, Grace, Sin

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance”, p.82, Multnomah

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• He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Law, Mind

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• Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Women, Positivity

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get there.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Being Yourself, Hard Work

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• The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Children, War, Mean

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• The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.

  Jonah Sachs

  Giving, Marketing, Today

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• The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

  Michael Novak

  Mind, Christianity, Lord

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• When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"

  Pam W. Vredevelt

  Hurt, Pain, Squares

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• I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

  Georgina Chapman

  Mother, Thinking, Careers

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