Empowerment Quotes - Page 12

• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wall, Women, Intelligent

  "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.

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• I am passionate about women's empowerment and women's ways.

  Stephanie Moore

  Women, Passionate, Way

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• I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong Women, Courage, Believe

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.1565, Delphi Classics

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• The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.

  George E. P. Box

  Cynical, Management, Cynicism

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• Confront your fears list them get to know them and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

  Jerry Gillies

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

  Socrates

  Life, Money, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Knowing, Joy, Harmony

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.219, Hay House, Inc

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• Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

  Michael Manley

  Inspirational, Change, People

  Michael Manley (1991). “The poverty of nations: reflections on underdevelopment and the world economy”, Pluto Pr

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• When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Development, Clear, Turning Points

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.228, Vintage

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• I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself.

  Ji Lee

  Thinking, Self, Age

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• There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women... When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier; they are better fed; their income, savings, and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is true of communities and, eventually, whole countries.

  Kofi Annan

  Girl, Country, Community

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• My goal is not to be better than anyone else..but to be better that I used to be

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Goal, Used

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• No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Self Empowerment, Ifs

  Wallace D. Wattles, Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Louis M. Grafe, N. H. Moos, John McDonald “Get Rich In Spite of Yourself Collection - An "If You Can Count to Four..." Reference”, Lulu.com

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• You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Perfect, Rooms, Improvement

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• We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the many laws, which have been obliged to be passed to protect them from their nearest male relatives, are a sufficient answer...They are evidently the production of men legislating for their own most obvious interest...without the slightest reference to the injustice they were committing against women.

  Marion Kirkland Reid

  Men, Law, Words Of Wisdom

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• Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the only means of obtaining the reforms we desire. As long as we remain excluded from civic life, men will attend to their own interests rather than to our.

  Hubertine Auclert

  Mean, Men, Long

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• Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Light, Imagination, Culture

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• Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.

  Policarpa Salavarrieta

  Suffering, Empowering Women, Enough

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• My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.

  Michael Haneke

  Distance, Cinema, Answers

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• You are afraid of your own empowerment
  as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered.

  Caroline Myss

  Becoming, Empowered

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• The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become.

  Caroline Myss

  Taken, Healing, Passion

  "Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason". Book by Caroline Myss, 2009.

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• Never underestimate the power of a woman.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Underestimate

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• Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's not about being in a community where you feel safe or enjoying the cachet of being a 'Buddhist.' It's not even about accumulating teachings, empowerments, or 'spiritual accomplishments.' It's about how naked you're willing to be with your own life, and how much you're willing to let go of your masks and your armor and live as a completely exposed, undefended, and open human person.

  Reginald Ray

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

  Michelle Obama

  Hurt, Past, Destiny

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