Quotes of Empowerment - somelinesforyou

“ Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ First master the fundamentals. ”

- Larry Bird

“ Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. ”

- Barbara Jordan

“ I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Whatever you are, be a good one. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. ”

- Desiderius Erasmus

“ We must become the change we want to see. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right. ”

- Henry Ford

“ When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration? ”

- Naomi Klein

“ That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women. ”

- Mary Field Belenky

“ There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away. ”

- Bill Gates

“ In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment — independent will — that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them… ”

- Stephen R. Covey
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