Empowerment Quotes - Page 21

• Today when someone shakes hands with Modi & looks into his eyes, they don't see Modi, but the reflection of 125 crore Indians.

  Narendra Modi

  Eye, Reflection, Hands

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• The mantra of independence was Satyagraha. And the warriors were Satyagrahis. The mantra of New Age India must be Swachhagrah. And the warriors will be Swachhagrahis.

  Narendra Modi

  Warrior, Independence, Age

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• The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

  Narendra Modi

  War, Feet, Empowering

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• Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should be everyone`s agenda. It should be a people's movement.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, People, India

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• You will see India as a country of opportunities, unmatched across the world. India can be a role model of growth and cohesiveness for the rest of the world.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Opportunity, Role Models

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• India is a democratic country & anyone can become a PM.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Pms, India

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• Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor.

  Narendra Modi

  Home, Light, India

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• Firmly believe that terrorism, in any shape or form, is against humanity. There should be zero tolerance towards terrorism.

  Narendra Modi

  Zero, Believe, Tolerance

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• They are able who think they are able.

  Virgil

  Thinking, Psychics, Able

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• The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

  Martha Beck

  Source, Process

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• My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.

  Ani DiFranco

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Educational, Zuckerberg, Creating

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• Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that in Islamic history there have been well over two thousand women jurists.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Islamic, Two, People

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• Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.

  David Amerland

  Media, Individual, Social

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• It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places...Rather, today's clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones.

  Demi Moore

  People, Female, Clubs

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• Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Cousin, Self, People

  "What's the ROI on Your Day? Amy Jo Martin on Passion and Innovation". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.312, Image

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• If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.

  Alvin Rosenfeld

  Inspirational, Courage, Children

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• Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  People, Poverty, Helping

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.16, Crown Business

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• When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Freedom, Mistake

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• We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.

  Peter London

  Beauty, Art, Lying

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Moving Forward, Thinking

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• Holistic Healthcare remains a very big attraction. Best of the doctors are moving towards homeopathy. There's a mood for Holistic Healthcare. There's a mood to go toward stress free life from a stressful life.

  Narendra Modi

  Stress, Moving, Doctors

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• Even if one child falls in a borewell, the entire country gets worried; we must generate more awareness about hundreds of children who are unable to survive due to lack of primary healthcare facilities.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Children, Fall

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