Quotes about Empowerment

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you're not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time - and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward.

Until you stop wishing things were different, accept the way they are, and take up the sole responsibility of doing something about it, nothing will change.

You don't need luck. Everything you need is right inside you.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

Don't beg anybody for anything, especially love.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man's skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.