Quotes about Empowerment
When we've been told we're not ready," I said, "or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.
— Barack Obama
Ultimately it was rap that got my head in the right place, two songs especially: Jay-Z's "My 1st Song" and Eminem's "Lose Yourself.
— Barack Obama
Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices ...Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down. - Mrs. Brown
— Barbara Kingsolver
It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
— Barbara Kingsolver
You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
— Stephen Covey
I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
— Stephen Covey
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
— Stephen Covey