Empowerment Quotes - Page 9

• What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

  Wayne Dyer

  Change, Spiritual, Buddhist

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Self, Unexpected

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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• There’s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When women become empowered and live in their strength it’s beneficiary to others, and I think as young women today we sometimes forget that we are standing on the struggle of other women. Those women had to stand up to make a change, and they were not popular, and now we’re making them unpopular again.

  Danai Gurira

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

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• Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

  Ariel Winter

  Book, Men, Nerd

  "Voicing THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: Ariel Winter". Interview, www.dccomics.com. September 25, 2012.

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• Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Boys, Men

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• The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.

  Megan Abbott

  Ribs, Matter, Necks

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• Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Cutting, Class

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• In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Islands, Rights, Law

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• Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure you also enjoy the full measure of fun that comes with such mastery. Glide through life as if all of creation is yearning to honor and entertain you.

  Rob Brezsny

  Fun, Responsibility, Honor

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.277, Frog Books

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• Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.

  Rob Brezsny

  Giving, Waiting, Self Empowerment

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.267, Frog Books

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• Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

  Robert Orben

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Psychics

  Robert Orben (2012). “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches”, p.309, Doubleday

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• Accountability breeds response-ability.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• The way I view feminism — and I know there are a lot of different things going on — but, at its purest form, to me, it's a very positive, supportive, nurturing, empowerment thing. I mean, God, who isn't a feminist? If you don't think women are as good as men, you're not a good person. I like to think that most of the population of people worth being friends with are feminists, if that's what feminism means.

  Kat Dennings

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

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• Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.

  Ted Andrews

  Book, Writing, Healing

  Ted Andrews (2011). “How To Uncover Your Past Lives”, p.6, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Rights, People

  "The Liberty Manifesto". P. J. O'Rourke 's Speech for the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., May 6, 1993.

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• We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Courage, Brightness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

  Martina McBride

  Inspirational, Courage, Strong

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• Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.

  Holly Near

  Inspirational, Courage, Rocks

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• Every decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or toward your soul. Each decision you make is an answer to the question, 'How do you choose to learn love?', 'How do you choose to learn authentic empowerment-through doubt and fear, or through wisdom?'

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Moving, Decisions You Make

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• For every mountain, there is a miracle.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Miracle, Challenges, Mountain

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• I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be feminists, they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in their beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all the answers...and this is not true and actually, recognizing all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I realized that feminism was not a rule book but a discussion, a conversation, a process.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Girl, Strong, Badass

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• I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you. [...] I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman."

  Margaret Cho

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Self Esteem

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Success, Follow Through

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.29, City Lights Books

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