Quotes about Empowerment

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.