Quotes about Empowerment

People either weigh you down or give you wings.

I learned that courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the courage to face whatever comes. He gives us the words to speak when we are called to stand and voice our faith.

It broke her heart, but a good mother teaches her children to fly.

I have lived out my mother's hope and pray I have given wings to my daughter's dreams.

As for Leota, She had chosen to close her mind to the things she couldn't change and move forward. There were many good things in life to allow things beyond your control to destroy you.

You have whatever strength God has given you, and it will be enough to carry out his good purpose. Trust in him.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. 2 TIMOTHY 1:7

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

You do not beg the sun for mercy. -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza

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