No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)
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