Quotes about Empowerment

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

The goal of any true resistance is to affect outcomes, not just to vent. And the only way to affect outcomes and thrive in our lives is to find the eye in the hurricane and act from that place of inner strength.

Ultimately, we can never change someone else's behavior—we can only change our own.

Self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.

You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work.

In my work and what I do, I am Queen of the Universe every day!

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

Your words are so powerful and precious. Learn to harness them, guide them and let them work for you.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

I didn't know who I was and I didn't know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught me to believe in myself and to work until something happens.

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.