Empowering Quotes - Page 31

• For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Brother, Thinking, Want

  "Malala Yousafzai on life in Britain: 'We have never seen women so free'". www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

  Karlie Kloss

  Helping Others, Thinking, Skills

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• You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Helping, Environment

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• Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Volunteer, Firsts

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• Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.

  Jim Wallis

  Christian, Inspiration, Our World

  Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

  Scott Adams

  Jobs, People, Principles

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• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.

  Bill Gates

  Team, Commitment, Organization

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• This chance will stand before you only once.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Women, Chance, Inspirational Women

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• I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Women, Feet

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• The best way to behave is to misbehave.

  Mae West

  Women, Way, Behave

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• ...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

  Kofi Annan

  Inspiring, Women, Empowerment

  Twitter post from May 11, 2016

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• It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world. I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way-to people in need.

  Teri Hatcher

  Jobs, Women, Blessed

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• Women are always beautiful.

  Ville Valo

  Beautiful, Women, Beautiful Women

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• ...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong and therefore makes society strong.

  Marsden Wagner

  Strength, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Strong Women, Sex

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• As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Children, Educational, Mean

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• Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Teamwork, Destiny, Ideas

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• Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happiness, Success, Gratitude

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• Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Creativity, Artist, Journey

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• The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

  Victoria Mahoney

  Inspirational, White, World

  "There Is an Audience for Our Films: Four African-American Female Filmmakers Speak Out". Interview with Lorenza Muñoz, www.thedailybeast.com. December 4, 2012.

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• Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

  Julia Serano

  World, Revolutionary, Weak

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• While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

  Timothy Keller

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

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• Empower your dreams with deadlines.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Dream, Deadline, Your Dreams

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• Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant to old patterns. It is sticky, uncomfortable, agitating, and difficult. But it is liberating and life giving and spirit enriching. It changes your life and the lives of everyone who joins you on your journey. And then, quite unexpectedly, you realize you are splashing hope into the lives of others because you have an intimate love relationship with the Source of hope.

  Carol Kent

  Hope, Encouragement, Journey

  Carol Kent (2007). “A New Kind of Normal: Hope-Filled Choices When Life Turns Upside Down”, p.219, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.

  Michael Arndt

  Self Improvement, Realization, Levels

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