Empowered Quotes - Page 16

• By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Girl, Children, Growing Up

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• Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Kids, Creative, Want

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• I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?

  Rosie Perez

  Feelings, Magazines, I Am Woman

  "The Pressure To Take It Off". Interview with Mim Udovitch, www.nytimes.com. June 25, 2000.

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• The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

  Stanley Clarke

  Technology, Musician, Knows

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• If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

  David Sobel

  Nature, Children, Earth

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• There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

  Andrea Jung

  Community, Moral, Investment

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• I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

  Dreama Walker

  Thank God, Female, Passionate

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

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• A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.

  Rebel Wilson

  Brother, Drama, Struggle

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• The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.

  Mark Zandi

  Fall, Credit, Phases

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• You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking, Self, Stills

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• Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

  Dean Ornish

  Offering, Choices, Six

  Dean Ornish, M.D. (2007). “The Spectrum: How to Customize a Way of Eating and Living Just Right for You and Your Family”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.

  Wole Soyinka

  Mean, Office, Violence

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• Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Moving, Men, Together

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• As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

  Steven Pinker

  Men, Numbers, Violence

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• Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

  Indra Nooyi

  Design, Innovation, Female

  "Sports: By Women and For Women" by Indra Nooyi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Hate, Thinking, Community

  "I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 02, 2011.

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• What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

  Gene Edwards

  Men, Broken, Doe

  Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.42, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.

  Eudora Welty

  Art, Memories, Writing

  Eudora Welty (2002). “On Writing”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Happy Monday! Don't victimize yourself and let life pass you by as you sit around and complain about problems. Be empowered and create solutions. You can!

  Tracey Edmonds

  Monday, Complaining, Problem

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• I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

  Tia Mowry

  Son, Stronger, Feels

  "Teen Actress Tia Mowry, Grown Up, Talks Motherhood". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• Psalm 34 says, 'Those who trust in the Lord will never lack any good thing.' This means if you don't have it right now, you don't need it right now.
  Our attitude should be, 'I'm equipped, empowered and anointed for this moment. I am not lacking, shortchanged or inadequate. I have what I need for today.'

  Joel Osteen

  Attitude, Mean, Needs

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• Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

  Bryan Kest

  Relationship, Patience, Gratitude

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• When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Action, Moments, Alignment

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.14, Penguin

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• Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you: When Rasulallah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam empowered the sahaba, did that take away from his authority or did it empower him?

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Real, People, Empowering

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 24, 2014

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• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

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