Empowerment Quotes

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance.

Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

If the disciples needed to be so endued and to preach the gospel with the Holy Spirit and with the manifestation of the Almighty, are we better than them able to carry on God's work without the empowerment they had?

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone.

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!

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.

We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment, on growth, on development of employment and so on and so on.

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.

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.

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.

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.

The coming decade belongs to the right of the poor and the marginalised. The BJP is very clear on that.

There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are women’s literacy and gainful economic employment.

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'

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.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

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

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

A real, healthy relationship is about empowerment and love and that should be standard - but it isn't.

For every mountain, there is a miracle.

I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy.

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

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings for 20 minutes or two hours. That's going to make her whole day right and her whole future hold up and seem entirely possible. The sense of her not having any limits, or any restrictions, to me, is so liberating. She doesn't have to prove anything.

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

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.