Quotes about Empowerment
I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.
— John Ortberg
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
— Epictetus
I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.
— Leymah Gbowee
Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
— Alice Walker
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
— Marianne Williamson
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
— Frederick Douglass
Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework.
— Clayton M. Christensen
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
— Booker T. Washington
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
— Victor Hugo
God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
— Joel Osteen
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
— Ben Stein
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
— Booker T. Washington