Quotes & Sayings About Empowering Each Other

I like women who like each other and empower each other. — Drew Barrymore

Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury. — James H. Cone

I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television. — Dominique Dawes

Girls rival each other. Women revive each other.
Girls empale each other. Women empower each other.
Girls compare each other. Women champion each other. — Ann Voskamp

This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us that, yes, helping people is hard-but it's both possible and infinitely rewarding. A Path Appears offers practical steps that any of us can take to empower others, and ourselves. — Anne Rice

Stand in your own two shoes. — T. Scott McLeod

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for. — Elizabeth Lesser

: Their acts violated our trust. : The secrecy told us we were alone. : The shame swirling through our experience convinced us we didn't deserve the best for ourselves. : Our circumstances twisted our beliefs about what to expect out of life. : Surviving our unpredictable, disempowering childhood left little opportunity to explore our talents or creativity. It's been said, living through childhood sexual abuse is like living in a war zone. Each of us survived by doing the best we could. Now we have the opportunity to celebrate the child we were and all we did to reach this place in life when healing is possible. Now we get to update our information. And this will bring encouraging, empowering, joy-filled changes into our lives. Each time you go back into a memory, you have the opportunity to 'see' what you learned in that moment of trauma. When I was six-years old, playing with my doll with abandon that blocked out all other noise, I found — Jeanne McElvaney

Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God. — Richard J. Foster

Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy. — Benazir Bhutto

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness. — Stephen Richards

When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love him, it simply means you love yourself enough to realize God has a better plan for you that doesn't involve one more conversation that will remind you of that person's lack of respect for you. — Shannon L. Alder

Be in charge, take control of your life — Lailah Gifty Akita

I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that. — Hailee Steinfeld

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying. — Andrew Lansley

I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me. — John Whitmore

Fear is instantly debilitating and love instantly empowering — Richard Gerber

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all. — Stephen Richards

Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own. — Tony Hsieh

We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's one thing to achieve success, and another to repeat success. That's the job of a leader. Promoting women leadership and creating a more level playing field is a huge enabler to repeat success. — Muhtar Kent

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way. — Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Merely wanting something is disempowering. Being committed to change your personal life and circumstances is empowering. — Shannon Tanner

Women's marches are a clever progressive divide and conquer strategy that not only turns women against men, but also turns women against each other in the guise of peace and solidarity. It is a brilliant tactic to employ media propaganda to make privileged women feel oppressed and then program them to think that vulgarity, exhibitionism and emasculation is empowering. — Dawn Perlmutter

Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality. — Jessica Jackley

When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, "What we're going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous." And you just see 20 smiles go up. "But, we're also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk." That's what it's about, you don't empower kids if you don't expose them to risk. — Bear Grylls

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The most empowering condition of all is when the entire organization is aligned with its mission, and people's passions and purpose are in synch with each other. — Bill George Peter Sims

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live. — Pope John Paul II

That is the shorthand version of what he's saying here in Philippians 2. If you're encouraged by Christ's salvation, if you've received any comfort from the Father's love, if the Spirit's empowering presence dwells in you, go all the way in the Christian experience - this is what he's urging them to do when he says "complete my joy" - by living in unity with each other, loving each other, and working together to exalt Christ. — Matt Chandler

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations. — Clayton M Christensen

Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies. — Dina Powell

The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before. — David Amerland

Empowering women is key to building a future we want — Amartya Sen

Sure I find it very liberating and empowering now; but at first, it took me a while to get used to the uncomfortably vulnerable feeling that comes along with being honest. — Steve Maraboli

When leaders wonder what they can do to position their societies for the industries of the future, they need to open up and resist control-freak tendencies. The 21st century is a terrible time to be a control freak; future grown depends on empowering people. — Alec J. Ross

I thought it would feel empowering to just sleep with whomever I wanted to, but I wasn't built that way. I just wasn't honest enough with myself to know that at the time. — Teresa Lo

Fearlessness is not what you do to win, but what you don't do. When you love yourself as much as your God, you won't see other people as the source of your pain. Rather, you will see who you have become because you honestly believed that your chains would be broken through hatred, instead of kindness. — Shannon L. Alder

In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership. — Jack Canfield

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives. — Daniel H. Pink

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom. — Eliza Dushku

We all have set-backs, use yours as fuel to burn your desire and dedication. — Jerry Gladstone

Excellent book. Very transformative and empowering with a lot of practical advise forepeople struggling to overcome difficulties. — Nandita Keshavan

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education. — Jerome Bruner

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller. — Tori Amos

For me professionally as well I've built an incredible business that I'm very proud of that is my own brand and that is both creating incredible content to empower and inspire this next generation of working women through a digital platform, mainly through my website, ivankatrump, our email newsletters, and our social-media platforms. — Ivanka Trump

Serving reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them. — Bill Johnson

The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.' — Helmut Thielicke

Who should open the door of success for you...you that's who! — Jerry Gladstone

Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so. — Vikrmn

You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong. — Stephen Richards

Pluralism also creates a more open system and allows independent media to flourish, making it easier for groups that have an interest in the continuation of inclusive institutions to become aware and organize against threats to these institutions. It is highly significant that the English state stopped censoring the media after 1688. The media played a similarly important role in empowering the population at large and in the continuation of the virtuous circle of institutional development in the United States, as we will see in this chapter. — Daron Acemoglu

No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense. — Steve Maraboli

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back — Kya Aliana

THE COMMON THREAD will help keep you on track during challenging times, during the pursuit of your hopes, dreams & goals — Jerry Gladstone