Quotes about Empowerment

Leadership in a team environment is all about serving, facilitating, and releasing rather than taking charge and being in control.

Despite what you've been told, you matter and you can accomplish something great.

Great leaders are folks who are passionate about and confident in the work they do, and they inspire others to do so in the process. Dale

Let's love ourselves so much that we won't permit our enemies to control our happiness, our health, and our looks

And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

Let me repeat: The principles taught in this book will work only when they come from the heart. I am not advocating a bag of tricks. I am talking about a new way of life. Talk about changing people. If you and I will inspire the people with whom we come in contact to a realization of the hidden treasures they possess, we can do far more than change people. We can literally transform them.

Even if we can't love our enemies, let's at least love ourselves. Let's love ourselves so much that we won't permit our enemies to control our happiness, our health and our looks. As Shakespeare put it: Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

Giving away credit is a magical multiplier

The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very self…. All that a man achieves is the direct result of his own thoughts…. A man can only rise, conquer and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak and abject and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.

We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

the Roman Empire, Marcus Aurelius, summed it up in eight words—eight words that can determine your destiny: "Our life is what our thoughts make it.

To manipulate, drive or manage people is not the same thing as to lead them.