Quotes about Empowerment

Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

If you want to give a light to others, you have to glow yourself.

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl everybody else wants to know

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees.

To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision."‡

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees. Employees need to ask permission before they can do anything. They need to get approval for every tiny expenditure.

In Scripture we see example after example of God coming alongside people who felt weak and inadequate—who felt the absence of the strength needed for the assignment they'd been given—and calling them to be strong. In fact, there are more than thirty occasions in the Bible where God commands someone to be strong.

We, the Church, hold the keys. We are His body—His hands, feet, voice—and what He does, He will do through us. We are Plan A, and there is no Plan B.

Anything we accomplish of eternal value is brought about by the ability and empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

What God asks us to do, He equips us to do.