Empowering Quotes - Page 34

• The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Comfort, Roles, Deals

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• The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating marginal spaces in which they can articulate and question their identity. Radical politics thus becomes an endless mocking parody and provocation, a gradual process of reidentification in which there are not final victories and ultimate demarcations

  Slavoj Žižek

  Creating, Space, Goal

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• Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Exercise, Opportunity

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• Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others

  John C. Maxwell

  Empowering Others, Wells, Enriching

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated”, p.128, HarperCollins Leadership

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• Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.

  Joe Greene

  Impact, Direct Action, Together

  "New Facebook Changes Will Help You Change the World" by Joe Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.

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• The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

  Eric Alterman

  Media, United States, Debate

  Eric Alterman (2008). “What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News”, p.18, Basic Books

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• Well, I like empowering my clients.

  Gloria Allred

  Clients, Wells

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• Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Morning, Motivation, Bed

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Directors, Actors, Way

  "'Thor' Star Chris Hemsworth Studied Mike Tyson, Shakespeare to Prepare for Role". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 4, 2011.

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• Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

  Steven Johnson

  Organization, Decision, Mind

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• Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

  Margaret Sanger

  Strong Women, Challenges, Empowerment

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We live in a culture that expects instantaneous gratification for everything, and the web has only enhanced that in many ways. It empowers in many ways, but it also makes people believe 'I should have everything right now.'

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Should Have, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There are different varieties and forms of capitalism. There are priorities within the capitalist society so that you can have countervailing forces come in and empower your working people and your poor people. There are capitalist societies that do not have poverty. America needs to understand that.

  Cornel West

  America, People, Priorities

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole. The black agenda - from Frederick Douglas to A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr, Fannie Lou Hammer to Ella Baker - has always been tied to race talk inseparable from expanding possibilities of democracy, expanding empowerment of everyday people.

  Cornel West

  Kings, White, Race

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.

  Gary Holland

  Art, Powerful, Believe

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• If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.

  Curtis Sliwa

  Gang, Ifs

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• I observe my thoughts and entertain only those that empower me.

  T. Harv Eker

  My Thoughts

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Oct 05, 2011

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• I wouldn’t call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It’s about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you’re having, and lending your support to other women. It’s empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.

  Melanie Brown

  Girl, Believe, Support

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• Every decision in your life is controlled by your beliefs and values. You may not realize it, but you have the power to choose what you believe about your life, people, money and health. You can either choose beliefs that limit you, or beliefs that empower you to move toward success. Your beliefs energize you to create the world you want to live in right now. The key is to be aware of them because what you value determines what you focus on.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Moving, Keys

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Nov 17, 2016

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• Never believe a prediction that does not empower you.

  Sean Stephenson

  Believe, Doe, Predictions

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• So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.

  Barack Obama

  Differences, Justice, Long

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.

  Robert Fulghum

  Fairy Tale, Reaching, Tales

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.43, Ivy Books

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• Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

  Tina Brown

  Mother, Country, Responsibility

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• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Running, Country, Children

  "A Century of Giving Back" by Queen Rania al Abdullah, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Opportunity, Community, Levels

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