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• To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Women, Leader, Politics

  "Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images". Book by Michael Collopy, 2000.

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• Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.

  Bela H. Banathy

  Future, Design, Creative

  Bela H. Banathy (2013). “Guided Evolution of Society: A Systems View”, p.255, Springer Science & Business Media

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• We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Daughter, Father, Age

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• It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get there.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Being Yourself, Hard Work

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• The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Children, War, Mean

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• Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help you find more than just material success. Through its empowering and practical lessons, readers will find inspiration as they embark on their careers.

  Marc Kielburger

  Inspiration, Careers, People

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• At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.

  J. D. Greear

  Weekend, People, Important

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• The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions that impact your life at a cellular level.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Psych, Simple, Impact

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• Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

  John Doerr

  Teacher, Way, Teach

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• It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

  Jack Dorsey

  Looks

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• The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.

  Jonah Sachs

  Giving, Marketing, Today

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• The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

  Michael Novak

  Mind, Christianity, Lord

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• Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .

  Audre Lorde

  Joy, Erotic, Lenses

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• Be a good example and a positive ambassador for vegan living, and be patient and understanding with people who aren't vegan. Support any move non-vegans make away from animal consumption toward plant-based eating. Nurture even small positive steps, as these tend to empower people and build momentum toward bigger steps.

  Gene Baur

  Moving, Animal, People

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• When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"

  Pam W. Vredevelt

  Hurt, Pain, Squares

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• I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

  Georgina Chapman

  Mother, Thinking, Careers

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• Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Organization, Leader

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.191, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize.
  Behind every word flows energy.

  Sonia Choquette

  Dream, Healing, Bricks And Mortar

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• Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Heart, Choices

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Dream, People, Effort

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• I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, People, Choices

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• God’s love sets us free from the need to seek approval. Knowing that we are loved by God, accepted by God, approved by God, and that we are new creations in Christ empowers us to reject self-rejection and embrace a healthy self-love. Being secure in God’s love for us, our love for Him, and our love for ourselves, prepares us to fulfill the second greatest commandment: To love our neighbor as ourselves.

  Myles Munroe

  Love Is, Self, Knowing

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.153, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

  Ward Cunningham

  Mean, Worry, Decision

  "Collective Ownership of Code and Text: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part II". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. December 01, 2003.

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• Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives.

  Paul George

  Years, People, Tree

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