Empowered Quotes - Page 15

• When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life.

  Gloria Feldt

  Balance, Areas

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.204, Seal Press

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• Angels are God's messengers whose chief business is to carry out his orders in the world. He has given them an ambassadorial charge. He has designated and empowered them as holy deputies to perform works of righteousness. In this way they assist him as their creator while he sovereignly controls the universe. So he has given them the capacity to bring holy enterprises to a successful conclusion.

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Successful, Order

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Public Opinion, States, Tolerate

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• What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.

  Sasha Grey

  Beautiful, Strong, Might

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• The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

  Judy Grahn

  Sex, Attitude, Gay

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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• in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Eye, Hands

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• Ang Lee just allowed me to make what we would call mistakes and had no judgment of them. He also empowered me. You know, he's like, "You're my actor. I chose you. Whatever you do is right." Right? "I made the decision, I'm complicit in choosing you. And I went through everything I could to choose you, so I feel good and whatever you're going to do I'm going to give you this space." And so it was very empowering.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Mistake, Space, Giving

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered and entrenched. They live in mansions, they have jobs in the government, and they're incredibly powerful. In Kabul, people don't want to speak about it too publicly, because these people are essentially like Tony Soprano.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, Powerful, War

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• Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Freedom, Learning

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 23, 2015

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• If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

  Stephen Covey

  Responsibility, Feelings, Our Actions

  Stephen R. Covey (2008). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

  Lights

  Strong, Men, Brave

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• Modelling, fashion and film have all encouraged me to learn more about issues and to feel empowered enough to do something about them.

  Lily Cole

  Fashion, Issues, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is 'in power' we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain number of people to act in their name. The moment the group, from which the power originated to begin with ... disappears, 'his power' also vanishes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Power, Names, Numbers

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is communal, but to face it we must be empowered as individuals and create structures of support and celebration that can teach us freedom. Creation is the ultimate resistance, the ultimate refusal to accept things as they are. For it is in creation that we encounter Mystery.

  Starhawk

  Support, Challenges, Way

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• What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives?

  Jeannine Parvati Baker

  Mother, Differences, Empowerment

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• Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

  Daniel Goleman

  Thinking, Example, Biodegradable

  "O Interview: How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

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• I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

  Erin Gruwell

  Teacher, Believe, Want

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• I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Gay, Good Friend, Males

  "Matthew McConaughey: No Shirt, No Problem". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. May 16, 2012.

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• An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

  Dean Ornish

  Healthy, Patient, Educated

  "Sharecare Builds A Web 3.0 Bridge To Better Health" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Encouraging, Mother, Strong

  "Interview with Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women". Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.

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• I look like people that walk down the street. I don't have perfect boobs, I don't have zero cellulite - of course I don't - and I'm curvy. If that is something that makes women feel empowered in any way, that's great.

  Kate Winslet

  Zero, Perfect, People

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• I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

  Angelina Jolie

  Motivational, Strong Women, Cancer

  "Angelina Jolie's mastectomy account raises awareness of gene testing" by Ed Pilkington and Haroon Siddique, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2013.

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• An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul. ... It is the harmlessness of one who treasures, honours and reveres life in all its forms.

  Gary Zukav

  Mean, Humility, Humble

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

  Hayley Williams

  Mean, Love Myself, Feels

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• The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit. But when believers live in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural. The church cannot help but be different, and the world cannot help but notice.

  Francis Chan

  People, Church, Gathering

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.151, David C Cook

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