Empowerment Quotes

“An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell."

(America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)”
― Pearl S. Buck

“I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.”
― Shih-t'ou

“People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You

“The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

“Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.”
― George Alexiou

“Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.”
― Nadège Richards

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.”
― Lucius Amaeus Seneca

“Don't let sickness, depression, and disease THUG YOU OUT. Eat healthier, think healthier, speak healthier, and more positively over your life. When you do so, you will soon begin to conquer your life and your health through new found empowerment- mind, body, and spirit.”
― SupaNova Slom

“Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions; that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen.

This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

“A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Of Men and Women

“Stand in your own two shoes.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself”
― Gary Hopkins

“Set forth no limits, keep in mind that your potential is boundless.”
― Sal Martinez

“Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Your past doesn't dictate what your future will be.”
― Jillian Bullock, Here I Stand

“Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to . . .
conquer the difficulties of the present.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, For the (soon) unemployed: You Against Them

“We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.”
― Gary Hopkins

“Freedom is something that you give yourself and no one else can ever take away.”
― Angela Bushman, A Soul's Journey Home

“In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and the profane within themselves and from it forge an identity that is powerful and purposeful.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our Power to Change the World

“Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away.”
― George Alexiou

“Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.”
― Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden

“Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic society. In the process, they often exaggerate the power of big media in order to frighten readers into taking action. I don't disagree with their concern about media concentration, but the way they frame the debate is self-defeating insofar as it disempowers consumers even as it seeks to mobilize them. Far too much media reform rhetoric rests on melodramatic discourse about victimization and vulnerability, seduction and manipulation, "propaganda machines" and "weapons of mass deception". Again and again, this version of the media reform movement has ignored the complexity of the public's relationship to popular culture and sided with those opposed to a more diverse and participatory culture. The politics of critical utopianism is founded on a notion of empowerment; the politics of critical pessimism on a politics of victimization. One focuses on what we are doing with media, and the other on what media is doing to us. As with previous revolutions, the media reform movement is gaining momentum at a time when people are starting to feel more empowered, not when they are at their weakest.”
― Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

“Read to lead in order to succeed.”
― Habeeb Akande

“He that would govern others first should be master of himself.”
― Philip Massinger

“The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams.”
― Gary F. Patton

“Don’t just hope the big idea is going to come, make it happen”
― Simon Dunn

“No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.”
― Suzanne V. Marshall, Big Small Dog

“Good fortune is created/written/made.”
― Erica Goros

“Danielle had never started a business. But if others can do it, so can I.”
― Jan Moran, Scent of Triumph