Empowering Quotes - Page 22

• Many different factors make up a fitness phenomenon, but the most critical are a sense of community, a ton of fun, a sense of accomplishment, and an empowering component that makes people feel they can become or do anything they want.

  Jillian Michaels

  Fun, People, Accomplishment

  "Jillian Michaels Talks Fitness Fads and What Makes an Exercise Phenomenon". Interview with Lily Butler, studioatgizmodo.kinja.com. October 12, 2015.

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• The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.

  Steve Coogan

  Voice, Giving, Church

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

  Dionne Warwick

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

  Esra Saydam

  Issues, Our Society, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent.

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspiration, Independent, Ideas

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

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• My real mantra for my life is "empower others".

  Guy Kawasaki

  Real, Life Is, Mantras

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Community, Style

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Want, Cost

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

  Bertrand Meyer

  Roles, Indispensable, Trainers

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• Country music has been empowering to women. Women invented it - it was women singing to their children that built country music. The people making country music today might not even know that it all started with a midwife. But it's true, it really did. That's where Michael learned to shake it the way he did. It wasn't from old Papa Jackson, I'll tell you that.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Children, People

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• I've had great people come in my life, meaning not just men, but women, support me and empower me. So that has lifted me to be the woman I am.

  Ledisi

  Men, People, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you educate children, then they are capable of so much - you empower them, you give them choices, and you enable them to create the lives that they dream for themselves.

  Naomie Harris

  Dream, Children, Giving

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for living. Live today. [...] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That's the only backup you'll need.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Believe, People, Supportive

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• My dream is to empower myself with education, and then it is a weapon.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Dream, Weapons

  "Malala Yousafzai celebrates string of A* grades at GCSE" by Jessica Elgot, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.

  Bear Grylls

  Simple, Answers, Alphas

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• Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

  Audre Lorde

  Emotional, Play, Erotic

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Dover Publications

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• When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

  Susan Meissner

  Believe, Being True

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• Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed.

  Klaus Schwab

  Ideas, Creating, Issues

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• If you empower women, you can change the world.

  Meg Ryan

  World, Ifs, Changing The World

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• I've found that knowing the material or the policy or the facts better than anyone else in the room is so empowering - and that means fully understanding them.

  Dana Perino

  Mean, Knowing, Understanding

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Believe, People, Stories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.

  Gloria Estefan

  People, Tough Times, Important

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Generations, Feels, Supporting Each Other

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick.

  Paul Bettany

  Directors, Actors, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• On the subject of money and politics and the rest, I have a DARE: Disclose who are these people; Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United; Reform: let's have public financing of campaigns; and Empower.

  Nancy Pelosi

  People, Reform, Citizens United

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