Quotes about Empowerment
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is to be lived, not controlled.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson