Quotes about Empowerment

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.

Truett was more interested in the business growing people than he was in people growing the business. And that's exactly how his business grew. When you are FOR the people in and around your business, the people in and around your business become FOR you.

The same God who urges us to obey also furnishes the desire as well as the strength to do so. Our part is to exercise our wills.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

I want to be free of self-pity. It is a tool of Satan to rot away a life.

The Indian himself must be the answer—he must learn the Scriptures, be taught, and in turn teach his own people. To this end Pete and Jim reopened the missionary school at Shandia that Dr. Tidmarsh had been forced to close. Here in a one-room schoolhouse the youngsters of the community were taught to read and write so that ultimately they could read the Scriptures for themselves.

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

When God gives you a mission, He also gives you everything you need to fulfill that mission.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.