Empowering Quotes - Page 32

• Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

  James Arthur Ray

  Life, May, Detours

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• The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Motivational, Responsibility, Self Confidence

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• Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm.

  Gary Zukav

  Perception, Degrees, Doe

  Gary Zukav (2007). “Thoughts From the Seat of the Soul: Meditations for Souls in Process”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

  Bill Gates

  Growth, Population, Constantly Improving

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• There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Kings, Writing, Empathy

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• I am not asking anyone to take the fun out of childhood. As we all know, treats are one of the best parts of being a kid. Instead, the goal here is to empower parents instead of undermining them as they try to make healthier choices for their families.

  Michelle Obama

  Fun, Kids, Goal

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• Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change.  The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Creative, Being Different

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Differences, Empowerment

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• My best successes came on the heels of failures.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Empowerment

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2017

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• It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?

  Bonnie St. John

  Life, Women, Joy

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• What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

  Debbi Fields

  Inspirational, Women, Believe

  Debbi Fields, Alan Furst (1987). “"One smart cookie": how a housewife's chocolate chip recipe turned into a multimillion-dollar business--the story of Mrs. Fields cookies”, Simon & Schuster

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• Just put on your makeup and get out there and do it.

  Emma Bunton

  Women, Makeup

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• Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

  Joy Browne

  Inspirational, Women, Self Esteem

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• Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

  Lily Tomlin

  Women, Power, Management

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• Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

  Lulu Guinness

  Women, Ideas, Work Out

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• When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

  Lynn Hill

  Women, People, Interesting

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• If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

  Rhonda Britten

  Women, Value Yourself, Ifs

  Rhonda Britten (2003). “Fearless Loving”, p.100, Penguin

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• What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Women, Writing

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• Now, get out there and kick ass!

  Stella McCartney

  Inspirational, Women, Empowerment

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• I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Curiosity, Empowerment

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

  Anita Roddick

  Strong Women, Young Entrepreneurs, Empowerment

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

  Biz Stone

  People, Tools, Great Things

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• If you have power, you have to empower.

  Kanye West

  Ifs

  "The Breakfast Club", genius.com. February 20, 2015.

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• The real power is love, that which empowers others, that which arouses action, that which no chain is able to hold back, for even on the Cross or on the death bed one is able to love. One does not need youthful beauty, nor recognition or approval, nor money or prestige. Let love simply bloom...and it is unstoppable.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Bed, Doe

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