Quotes about Empowerment

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

You have to be someone.

Jealousy says, "Compete with each other." Envy says, "Destroy each other." Empathy says, "Help each other." Love says, "Empower each other.

One who does not deserve your tears does not deserve your heart.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

Joy doubles your faith, strength triples your might, and love quadruples your power.

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and "develop their personalities" at the former's expense we speak of oppression; when structures and persons that perpetuate powerlessness are replaced by structures that allow people to stand on their own feet and have their own voice, we speak of liberation.2 Both

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.