Empowering Quotes

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

Leaders are those who empower others.

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community. I hope that my being real with you will help empower you to step into who you are and encourage you to share yourself with those around you.

Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.

My purpose is to develop a country, to empower its population. It's from that same population that will emerge the man or woman who will succeed me. And they will be chosen based on the consensus that they have the capacity to lead the country.

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts - rich thoughts.

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'

God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.

I know I'm stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We're beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good. Instead of seeing every difficult challenging event as a negative, see it for what it could be - something that is meant to enrich you, empower you, or advance your causes.

Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.

Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.