Empowering Quotes - Page 17

• There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

  Beverly Johnson

  Artist, Makeup, Hair

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• My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Hair, Rocks

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• I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen

  India.Arie

  Love, Girl, Queens

  Song: Video, Album: Acoustic Soul

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• Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

  Stephen Covey

  Lynching, People, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.545, Mango Media Inc.

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• Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good. Instead of seeing every difficult challenging event as a negative, see it for what it could be - something that is meant to enrich you, empower you, or advance your causes.

  W. Clement Stone

  Believe, Challenges, Events

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• Facing facts is always empowering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Facts

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.69, Penguin

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• If we succeed in empowering girls, we'll succeed in everything else.

  Desmond Tutu

  Girl, Succeed, Ifs

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• Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!

  Stephen Covey

  Ideas, People, Growth

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• If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

  Greg Mortenson

  Culture, Want, Three Cups Of Tea

  Greg Mortenson (2008). “Three Cups Of Tea”, p.329, Penguin UK

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• Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Pursuit, Humankind, Reasonable

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• I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that?

  Soledad O'Brien

  Believe, Self Worth, Journey

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• It's empowering for women to have some tricks up their sleeve to help them look their best.

  Nina Garcia

  Looks, Helping, Tricks

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• We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Strength, Confidence, Perseverance

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you!

  Wayne Dyer

  Greatness, People, Proximity

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• Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

  David Walker

  Order, Bridges, Vision

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• If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!

  Michael Eisen

  Needs, Want, Firsts

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• Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

  Colin Powell

  Ideas, Leader, Vision

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• The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.

  Paul McCartney

  Choices, Important, Patterns

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• We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's one thing to achieve success, and another to repeat success. That's the job of a leader. Promoting women leadership and creating a more level playing field is a huge enabler to repeat success.

  Muhtar Kent

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

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• If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Empowering Women, Ifs

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• Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, Things To Do, Right Thing

  Twitter post from Mar 8, 2013

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• If you can see the invisible, then you can see the possible and provide the opportunities for trust, commitment and ways of empowering others to manage their past, present and future.

  Ken Wyatt

  Future, Commitment, Past

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• We shouldn't pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects his love and power.

  Brother Yun

  Love, God, Christian

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2002). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.229, Monarch Books

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• Never delegate. Always empower.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Delegates

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• Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Women, Thinking, Remember

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