Empowering quotes
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"If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless."
"Now, get out there and kick ass!"
"Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves."
"Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world."
"Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'."
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"The best way to behave is to misbehave."
"All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default."
"Whatever title or office we may be privileged to hold, it is what we do that defines who we are ... Each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be-what kind of legacy that we want to pass on."
"The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others."
"Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual."
"I am not bossy, I am the boss."
"Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before."
"He who stands on tiptoe doesn't stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn't go far. He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can't know who he really is. He who has power over others can't empower himself. He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures."
"If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy."
"The world we think we see is only a view, a collective description of the world that we create through our belief systems. Accepting this fact seems to be one of the most empowering things one can do."
"Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him."
"Women have always been the strong ones of the world."
"Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you!"
"What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions."
