Empowering Quotes - Page 27

• You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

  Byron Katie

  Strength, Being Strong, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2011

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• A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  People, Broken, Stories

  "The danger of a single story". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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• In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

  Aberjhani

  Gratitude, Order, Giving

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teaching, Giving, Community

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

  Eve Ensler

  World, Body, Fixing

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• If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Fighting, Hygiene

  "Three Cups of Tea". Book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 2007.

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• The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

  Bill Gates

  Past, Giving, Vision

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• Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

  Richard Rohr

  Love You, Ifs And, Taught

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• No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.

  John Perkins

  Broken, Greed, Legacy

  "Don’t Let the Robber Barons Fool You" by John Perkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2010.

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• The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Dream, Women, Scare

  Harvard Commencement remarks, news.harvard.edu. May 26, 2011.

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• Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, Spirit

  Francis Chan (2009). “Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit”, p.132, David C Cook

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• There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.

  Erin McKean

  Mother, Children, Men

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  Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Knowing, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from May 19, 2012

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• The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Education, Peace, Passion

  Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, August 31, 1995.

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• You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, People, Wealth Creation

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• Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful.

  Jordan Belfort

  Success, Men, People

  Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.98, Bantam

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• I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Strong Women, Voice

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• The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Important, Democracy

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Positive, Daughter

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

  Mae Jemison

  Inspiring, Strong Women, History

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• Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.

  Jim Stengel

  Business, Technology, Media

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