Quotes about Empowerment

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be.

Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.) And so the boy

You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think.

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

This is essentially a people's contest…. It is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men—to lift artificial weights from all shoulders—to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all—to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.