Empowering Quotes - Page 30

• People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

  Indira Gandhi

  Women, Inspirational Life, Hands

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• For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.

  Jillian Michaels

  Loss, Years, People

  "Jillian Michaels' Secrets to the Strongest You Ever". Interview by Alison Prato, www.health.com. February 23, 2012.

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• We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Motivational, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

  Christina Rossetti

  Inspirational, Work, Women

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, Maria Keaton (2004). “Prose Works of Christina Rossetti”, Thoemmes Pr

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• [T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Spirit, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2004). “The Federalist Papers”, p.576, Simon and Schuster

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• The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the 9/11 syndrome. Articulating and documenting what many feel, and empowering them into action, the book will have an impact on entrenched US empire elites unwilling and unable to take it on. Votes of thanks to Ahmed, and to Interlink!

  Johan Galtung

  Book, Impact, Research

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• The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.

  Irina Lazareanu

  Thinking, Issues, Looks

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• The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

  Forest Whitaker

  Community, Wealth, Sincerely

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• I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are ‘the poor heartbroken girl.’ That’s why I’m so proud of the Fast movies. I feel like Giselle is an empowering woman.

  Gal Gadot

  Girl, Heartbroken, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.

  Russell Crowe

  Lying, Men, Gains

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• Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

  Rose Byrne

  Careers, Goal, Over You

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

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• That's really empowering - people recognize that I care about other things.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  People, Care, I Care

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• The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

  Marlon Brando

  Stars, Rights, People

  "Songs My Mother Taught Me". Autobiography by Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey, 1994.

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• I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

  Ricki Lake

  Girl, Home, People

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• There's something really empowering about going, 'Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!' That's the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.

  Kate Winslet

  Mother, Wonderful, Hell

  "Kate Winslet On Being A Mom: ‘You Can Because You Must, And You Just DO’", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2014.

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• I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

  Julie Christie

  Waiting, Heaven, Film

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• If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Understanding, Different, Looks

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• I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.

  Jamie Oliver

  Strong, Children, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Jamie Oliver from Apr 16, 2015

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• Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.

  Lucy Liu

  Fighting, Watches, Kind

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• There’s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When women become empowered and live in their strength it’s beneficiary to others, and I think as young women today we sometimes forget that we are standing on the struggle of other women. Those women had to stand up to make a change, and they were not popular, and now we’re making them unpopular again.

  Danai Gurira

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

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• Mavericks and its talent deserve this innovation and respect. Now is the time to harness its power for the world to experience. These athletes amaze me with each wave ridden; I am honored to take on such an empowering responsibility. I look forward to celebrating these artists of big wave surfing through showcasing the most important wave in history.

  Griffin Guess

  Athlete, Responsibility, Artist

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• Don't repress your needs and feelings. They fester, becoming corrosive and destructive in your relationships. In a calm, loving way, tell the people in your life what you need. Don't expect people to read your mind. It only leads to disappointment and frustration. Empower them to empower you!

  Jillian Michaels

  Disappointment, Frustration, People

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 29, 2011

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• I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the delicacy of our relations. It is this tenderness born out of a connection to place that fuels my writing. Writing becomes an act of compassion toward life, the life we so often refuse to see because if we look too closely or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering. But words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Moving, Writing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.55, Vintage

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• Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism.
  We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Business

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• Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own professional staff, and leveraging their expertise to enrich the Arab community. We have embraced the concept of the 'knowledge worker' and have sought to empower our people and the Arab world's people to dream, to imagine, and to create.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Dream, Knowledge, Power

  National Seminar on Industrial Property and Technology Transfer in Arab States, Amman, Jordan, June 18, 2007.

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