Empowering Quotes - Page 32

• The way that you empower the poor to be able to live in those neighborhoods is not to just move them and give them something, give them the better neighborhood. You have policies that allow them to get out of the neighborhood permanently and afford that neighborhood through hard work.

  Katie Pavlich

  Moving, Hard Work, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Self-esteem creates natural highs. Knowing that you're lovable helps you to love more. Knowing that you're important helps you to make a difference to to others. Knowing that you are capable empowers you to create more. Knowing that you're valuable and that you have a special place in the universe is a serene spiritual joy in itself.

  Louise Hart

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Differences

  Louise Hart (1994). “On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation”

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• Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories

  Orrin Woodward

  Attitude, Victory, Ability

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• The world we think we see is only a view, a collective description of the world that we create through our belief systems. Accepting this fact seems to be one of the most empowering things one can do.

  David Wolfe

  Thinking, Views, Facts

  David Wolfe (2012). “The Sunfood Diet Success System”, p.51, North Atlantic Books

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• Having a gun in your hand is very empowering.

  Daniela Ruah

  Gun, Hands

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• I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

  Bellamy Young

  Thinking, Looks, Actors

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

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• Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.

  Alicia Keys

  World, Whole

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• There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Men, Hands

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• I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, People, Feelings

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• I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, Things Change, Women's Rights

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• Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Experience, Firsts

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• Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

  Ben Kingsley

  Children, Needs, Millions

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• I do like celebrating women, I do like celebrating different lifestyles and choices and people and it makes me happy when others find my work empowering.

  Sarah Kay

  People, Choices, Different

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• Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

  Simon Sinek

  Intelligent, Thinking, Opposites

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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• For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.

  Carter Heyward

  God, Names, Creative

  Carter Heyward (1984). “Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation”

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• I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint

  Oprah Winfrey

  Strong Women, Believe, Unique

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• To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Blame

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• Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.

  Ken Blanchard

  Team, Mean, Skills

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• You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.

  Nhat Hanh

  Meaningful, Intelligent, Positive Energy

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• Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Commitment, Followers

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• For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

  Billy Porter

  Hopeful, Being Positive, Life Is

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• Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power, or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain and, by grace, to find treasures of joy, of friendship, of peace hidden in the fields of the daily you give me to plow.

  Ted Loder

  Honesty, Exercise, Giving

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• I tell you this: You always get what you create, and you are always creating. I do not make a judgment about the creations that you conjure, I simply empower you to conjure more-and more and more and more. If you don't like what you've just created, choose again. My job, as God, is to always give you that opportunity.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Jobs

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.118, Penguin

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• My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Photography, Art, Drama

  "Global Citizen". Scouts Interview, July/August 2010.

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• The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Pockets, Saint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.250, University of Georgia Press

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