Empowerment Quotes

#1. No man can ever be half of what an average woman is. Men have known this since time immemorial. That's why they have always denied women their rights! #Quote by Saidi Mdala

#2. Now say, have women worth, or have they none?
Or had they some, but with our Queen is't gone?
Nay Masculines, you have thus tax'd us long,
But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong.
Let such as say our sex is void of reason
Know 'tis a slander now, but once was treason."
(In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth) #Quote by Anne Bradstreet

#3. Being human is a portal into your divinity, #Quote by Renae A. Sauter

#4. I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man's and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard. #Quote by Caroline George

#5. Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame. #Quote by Sydney Marie Hughes

#6. Any women who say is not getting equally amount paid as men do, they don't work equal amount as man do. There are many women business owners who make more them men's do, if you are a women who think you are not getting paid equal amount, you are free to open your own business and make how much you want. #Quote by "Beta" Metani' Marashi

#7. I found peace of mind when I walked away from small fights not worth fighting. I stopped fighting for people who gossiped about me. I stopped fighting for those who didn't respect me. I quit worrying about those who wouldn't value me for being me. #Quote by Dana Arcuri

#8. The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction, direction, and most of all you need a master's auric empowerment. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#9. With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#10. The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you're in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don't control. #Quote by Steve Maraboli

#11. The current feminist agenda mostly accuses men or society in general, thereby ignoring the pivotal role played by women themselves in their life predicaments. #Quote by Laura Schlessinger

#12. Our Arab mothers and sisters are suffering from injustices like domestic violence, sexual harassment, child marriages and honour killings, some are still fighting for their right to drive or travel without male custody therefore our powerful Arab media was not only expected to broadcast this particular one of a kind Women's march it should have held panels to dissect the issues being brought forth in order for the Arab world to better understand that gender equality is not an idea that one believes in, it is a planned movement that requires an enormous effort on the part of both men and women to reach. #Quote by Aysha Taryam

#13. I hope you find your truth and when you do, you stand in the middle of it strong, beautiful and nimble like the World dancer. Because when the Fool followed her own path and trusted herself, she found herself in the World. And by the time she did, she was so high on the music-so enraptured by the dancing, so lost in the beauty, so in tune with herself, and so filled with magic-she didn't even realize she's arrived at her destination. #Quote by Sasha Graham

#14. The difference between a conventional counsellor and an empowerment counsellor is that a conventional therapist will allow you to dwell in your pit of misery for months, years and possibly even decades; whereas an empowerment counsellor will challenge you to recognise that your past pains and seemingly negative experiences are the very key to accessing your greatest self. #Quote by Miya Yamanouchi

#15. Empowering children through the Word of God so excellence is the standard not the exception #Quote by Jacqui Wilson

#16. We are meant to be deeply affected and changed by motherhood. We are meant to be softened, humbled, reshaped, repurposed, and made wiser. We're meant to grow, heal, and transform for the good of us all and toward the mother-led consciousness we've been blessed with the honor of birthing. #Quote by Beth Berry

#17. Even in the midst of life's adversity, struggle or strife; Love's enduring presence remains steadfast. #Quote by Eleesha

#18. They hate being unable to control you. #Quote by Jeff Mach

#19. We don't have to accept the things we might change. #Quote by Kate Elliott

#20. The true dwellers help you embrace
the darkness in yourself and wield it at will.
It is never belittling but empowering. #Quote by Harshita Gottipati

#21. No glass ceiling was ever shattered by a whiner. #Quote by Melanie Hope

#22. Your dissatisfaction with yourself speaks of a self-absorption, a vanity, which always gets in the way of your truly coming to rejoice in life. #Quote by Matias Dalsgaard

#23. A Woman is the first teacher in our life. A woman in the role of a mother, grand-mother, aunt, sister, cousin, girl-friend, wife, sister-in-law, daughter and in any other role always teaches us about loving, caring, and nurturing life and relationships in world. Without women life on Earth would have been annihilated ages ago. Women give birth to and nurture life in Earth! #Quote by Avijeet Das

#24. You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making. #Quote by Stephen Richards

#25. Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist. #Quote by Kangana Ranaut

#26. The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. #Quote by Barbara Coloroso

#27. four appalling realities of daily life: maternal mortality, human trafficking, sexual violence, and the routine daily discrimination that causes girls to die at far higher rates than boys. The tools to address these challenges include girls' education, family planning, micro-finance, and "empowerment" in every sense. #Quote by Nicholas D. Kristof

#28. Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. #Quote by Roy Bennett

#29. When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn't want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist. #Quote by Emma Watson

#30. Never let fear hold you captive.
Never let self-doubt hold you captive.
Never let frustration hold you captive. #Quote by Roy Bennett

#31. I feel like people think of me as someone who really believes in a "sex as empowerment" philosophy, like Sasha Grey or something, when actually I feel like I'm much more what a lot of liberal feminists would call "sex negative" than most women I know. #Quote by Marie Calloway

#32. Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism ... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase! #Quote by Narendra Modi

#33. Graciously honor the freedom at which Christmas so peacefully - came into being. #Quote by Eleesha

#34. P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both. #Quote by Paulo Freire

#35. If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a strong bond with books. #Quote by Narendra Modi

#36. Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. #Quote by Julia Cameron

#37. The Soul does not just share the answers you seek - but, how all you want can be achieved. #Quote by Eleesha

#38. Ive been waiting for this moment,
The one where looking back doesn't seem fascinating anymore & looking forward doesn't seem to be the greatest seek, I am so darn content with creating and living right now that there honestly isn't any room left for the ordinary. #Quote by Nikki Rowe

#39. I've never held the view that women are better than men, or that the best way to improve the world is for women to gain more power than men. I think male dominance is harmful to society because any dominance is harmful: It means society is governed by a false hierarchy where power and opportunity are awarded according to gender, age, wealth, and privilege - not according to skill, effort, talent, or accomplishments. When a culture of dominance is broken, it activates power in all of us. So the goal for me is not the rise of women and the fall of man. It is the rise of both women and men from a struggle for dominance to a state of partnership.
If the goal is partnership between women and men, why do I put so much emphasis on women's empowerment and women's groups? My answer is that we draw strength from each other, and we often have to convince ourselves that we deserve an equal partnership before we get one. #Quote by Melinda Gates

#40. India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides. #Quote by Narendra Modi

#41. Queen, do not allow a commoner to dethrone you. Own that throne. You are royalty. #Quote by Gift Gugu Mona

#42. deity moments
are monumental
but not for a mortal
so my devoted
ask of you
to never beg for any man
you are your own wildflower
wild and free
in your devotion to
finally, only you
and you forevermore #Quote by M.M. Van Der Reijden

#43. The Women's March had restored my faith as I am sure it has introduced the young generation to the new wave of feminism. A feminist movement that was made up of both sexes and all ages and creeds, one that did away with the arguments and stood arm in arm for a greater cause, a cause which the Arab media did not wish to project. #Quote by Aysha Taryam

#44. In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.
(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China) #Quote by Aung San Suu Kyi

#45. The 8 Snippets feed hungry hearts with love, learning and laughter. #Quote by T.R. Johnson

#46. I want those in what I call the regressive left who are reading this exchange to understand that the first stage in the empowerment of any minority community is the liberation of reformist voices within that community so that its members can take responsibility for themselves and overcome the first hurdle to genuine empowerment: the victimhood mentality. This is what the American civil rights movement achieved, by shifting the debate. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders took responsibility for their own communities and acted in a positive and empowering way, instead of constantly playing the victim card or rioting in the streets. Perpetuating this groupthink mind-set is both extremely dangerous and in fact disempowering. #Quote by Sam Harris

#47. Destructive thoughts prevent your body from collaborating with your deepest wishes and needs. Sabotage has never been the road to success. #Quote by Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir

#48. Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice. #Quote by Robert Orben

#49. (...) Bitch is a stereotype in transition. A developing culture of unrepentant Bitches can be found everywhere! There's Bitch magazine; there's a growing industry of Bitch-empowerment books. If the world is going to call you a Bitch for being ambitious, outspoken, and in control of your on sexuality, why not accept it and be proud? If we use it to describe ourselves, it can't be used against us. We say, "Bitches of the world unite". Be tough, get what you want, be a real Bitch. But don't let anyone else call you one! #Quote by Guerrilla Girls

#50. Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights. #Quote by Mahnaz Afkhami

#51. If you want to experience dramatic growth within your organization, you must truly understand the relationship between profit, growth, longevity, customer relationships, employee empowerment, and customer service. #Quote by Anonymous

#52. He never looks at comics these days, even though they've become fashionable to the point where adults are allowed to read them without fear of ridicule. Ironically, in David's view, this makes them a lot more ridiculous than when they were intended as a perfectly legitimate and often beautifully crafted means of entertaining kids. At age thirteen, David's idea of heaven was somewhere that comics were acclaimed and readily available, perhaps with dozens of big budget movies featuring his favourite obscure costumed characters. Now that he's in his fifties and his paradise is all around him he finds it depressing. Concepts and ideas meant for the children of some forty years ago: is that the best that the twenty-first century has got to offer? When all this extraordinary stuff is happening everywhere, are Stan Lee's post-war fantasies of white neurotic middle-class American empowerment really the most adequate response? #Quote by Alan Moore

#53. Empowerment is the intentional absence of negativity. #Quote by Stephanie Lennox

#54. As we celebrate the evolution of the life of one so special, we embrace the meaning of life, itself. #Quote by Eleesha

#55. We are part of a flowing ocean of energy. Our limitations are the rafts we create to help us feel secure. #Quote by Jeanne McElvaney

#56. What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is. #Quote by Anne Frank

#57. For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity. #Quote by Raphael Zernoff

#58. The upper-caste, upper-class Hindus have to let go of their bigotry and prejudice. The oppressed have to let go of their justified but expensive urge for revenge and retribution. All over the world, the oppressed have only risen through self-empowerment - look at the Jews and the Parsis. #Quote by Chetan Bhagat

#59. If we can accept the fact that we create illness, it follows naturally that we can also create wellness. And therein lies a most empowering nugget of truth and healing. #Quote by Liberty Forrest

#60. For all the girls in all the worlds.
May you feel strength with your first breath,
realize your unlimited potential for greatness on your second, and follow your dreams on your third. #Quote by C.S. O'Kelly

#61. I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language."

I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end.

And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as #Quote by Audre Lorde

#62. Witchcraft is a path of personal freedom. #Quote by Dacha Avelin

#63. Nurture the Power & Wisdom of your Own Inner Strengths, with Good Intent. #Quote by Eleesha

#64. Dear Women... Chill! We are no victims. Fight for equality, not superiority. Days are not far when people would be fighting for 'Men Empowerment'. True... Women suffer more than Men. But that doesn't mean men do not suffer - at all. I have seen male victims of domestic violence. I have read stories of men who have been rape victims. We, being women can at least speak about these issues. Men can't or rather our society doesn't allow them to. We better fight against the issues we are facing irrespective of the gender. And not against Men.

Stop being Weak - Mentally as well as Physically. Because We are Not! #Quote by Shreya Naik

#65. Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away. #Quote by George Alexiou

#66. Know that you matter, your thoughts and feelings matter, your sexual needs and wants matter, your sexual boundaries and sexual health matter. -That is the definition of sexual empowerment. #Quote by Miya Yamanouchi

#67. If we are to be women in power, then it must be power on very different terms. we have to find a new source of energy. New structures of power. Ones that don't deplete us or our environment. We need to run our lives on sustainable energy. #Quote by Lucy H. Pearce

#68. One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment. #Quote by Robert E. Quinn

#69. Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. #Quote by Adrienne Rich

#70. I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn't feel sorry if other people don't have one. #Quote by C. JoyBell C.

#71. Raise the bar higher than your opinion... #Quote by Gino Norris

#72. Women can end all wars right now, just deny sex to your partners until they stop fighting. #Quote by Abhijit Naskar

#73. As Dr. Hamid Rashid, the senior Bangladeshi economist and a leader of the UNDP's Legal Empowerment of the Poor program, has flatly stated: "With limited and insecure land rights, it is difficult, if not impossible, for the poor to overcome poverty."80 And once again, it is the women in the developing world who are most devastated by the lawless chaos of insecure property rights. In the absence of clear and documented legal rights to property, there are two other social forces that step into the vacuum and settle who gets what: 1) brute force, and 2) traditional cultural norms. And under both influences women generally lose - and brutally so. #Quote by Gary A. Haugen

#74. Affirm your life's destiny & purpose to ensure - both are graciously fulfilled. #Quote by Eleesha

#75. All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief. #Quote by Tony Robbins

#76. If the disciples needed to be so endued and to preach the gospel with the Holy Spirit and with the manifestation of the Almighty, are we better than them able to carry on God's work without the empowerment they had? #Quote by Reinhard Bonnke

#77. In the law, rights are islands of empowerment ... Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society. #Quote by Patricia J. Williams

#78. Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your memories build your self-esteem. Some of the strengths you get from taking on your buried memories does not show up in your life until long after the resolution has been achieved. #Quote by Renee Fredrickson

#79. Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness #Quote by Steve Maraboli

#80. Never again, would I use someone's
approval as a thermometer for
my self-worth. #Quote by Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#81. With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties. #Quote by Leonard Peltier

#82. For me, the times that I dressed provocatively had been empowering. It felt good. It's those times that I felt comfortable in my own skin. Like really, really comfortable. And let's face it, body self-esteem issues are a hurdle many women struggle to overcome.
So when a person tears a woman down for how's she's dressed, they are tearing her down at a moment she feels at the top of her game. That's where the real shame is - not in how a woman is dressed, but in the desire to minimise her self-worth and empowerment. That's not kind, or well meaning. It's rude and cruel. #Quote by Annastacia Dickerson

#83. If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can't imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America's alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart - and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings. #Quote by Rita Dove

#84. Amidst such Soulful exploration each passage - is given new meaning, wisdom & insight. #Quote by Eleesha

#85. ... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look. #Quote by Christine De Pizan

#86. Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." - #Quote by Clare Boothe Luce

#87. If only you knew who you really were you would be fearless and love yourself with a grand passion! You are a unique shard of God, the Universe, the whole or whatever label you would like to call it. No one can take your place and without you endless synchronicity and evolution would not happen. You are so powerful that just by walking down the street you can change someone's life forever. #Quote by Michele Knight

#88. There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself. #Quote by Gary Hopkins

#89. If capitalism was under another system which regulated it, so that supplies would fit the demand, rather than the suppliers trying to manipulate demands with deception to sell, then capitalism would be a great system. #Quote by Oscar Auliq-Ice

#90. Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. #Quote by Nora Ephron

#91. Become aware of yourself. Everything will come to you, Chinmay, when you are in that most wonderful place on earth, the centre of your being. If you learn just one thing from this book, let it be that once you are aware of yourself, depression cannot hold you back any more than a tiger can be trapped in a spider's web. #Quote by Indu Muralidharan

#92. Make no excuses for your authority nor for your fierce grace. Make no apologies for your boundaries nor for your decision to be vulnerable. #Quote by C. JoyBell C.

#93. I hate men who are afraid of women's strength. #Quote by Anais Nin

#94. Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with. #Quote by Steve Maraboli

#95. Reverence is a perception of the soul. Reverence is a natural aspect of authentic empowerment because the soul reveres all of Life. When the personality is aligned with the soul, it cannot perceive life except with reverence. Approaching life with reverence is a step toward moving the personality into alignment with the soul because it brings an aspect of the soul directly into the physical environment. #Quote by Gary Zukav

#96. Your past can either cripple you or empower you. You choose. You can let your feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and shame keep you working jobs that suck your soul. Or you can go out and, with a little luck and guidance, write a new story of your life. It can be post-traumatic stress or it can be post-traumatic growth that defines you. You know as well as I do that in reality you don't have a choice.
You know as well as I do that in reality you don't have a choice. Your skeletons chase you no matter where you hide. It's about time to find your inner strength to pull through and make something of yourself. #Quote by Lucas Carlson

#97. The best kind of people to surround ourselves with are those who reflect faith, hope, and love. They don't expect us to fill their cups and they don't try to fill ours either. God often speaks through these people messages of empowerment and even conviction. But ultimately, these people point us toward the Father for our strength. #Quote by Jennifer Strickland

#98. Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart. #Quote by Christina Baldwin

#99. If you invest in a girl or a woman, you're investing in everyone else. #Quote by Melinda Gates

#100. I stopped remembering the past and started visualising my future, the only thing left I could hold onto was hope; that the courage I have found along the way, is what will see me through. #Quote by Nikki Rowe

#101. I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too. #Quote by Lisa Gardner

#102. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence. #Quote by William J. Clinton

#103. Enlightenment is the key to empowerment. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#104. Dear Black Women… Save, Invest, and Spend Less. Save because you just never know what will come up. This will save you from having to borrow from friends, family, or going to get a payday loan. Invest so that you'll have something of value to show for. Investing also helps in building WEALTH. Spend less so that you're not broke, living paycheck to paycheck, and/or in a lot of debt. Don't allow money to control you. Take charge! Keep, and/or get your finances in order. Value your money and be mindful of how and what you're spending. #Quote by Stephanie Lahart

#105. Fearlessly use the power of your will & determination to go forth in life, strengthened. #Quote by Eleesha

#106. As the new day dawns, and my inkwell runs dry, I hereby make a vow. Not a vow to the man I once hoped to marry, but a promise to myself. From this morning forward, I will never shed another tear for him. There is no need. Because everything Lord Dashwood rejected when he so callously walked away - ­is mine to claim. Mine to use. My wit, my strength, and most of all - ­my heart. I will not put any of these on the shelf. #Quote by Tessa Dare

#107. Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself. #Quote by Maya Angelou

#108. The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings. #Quote by Nicholas D. Kristof

#109. When the heart sees injustice it turns to the perspective of oneness.
It feels no need to produce a big speech to overcome its enemies.
In silence it finds its peace. #Quote by Raphael Zernoff

#110. The vast majority of funding in support of women appears to have been directed toward the training of women as participants in political, civil, and economic processes. This approach to women's empowerment is based on two assumptions. The first is that Iraqi women need training to bring them into the public sphere ... The second is that women, if equipped with appropriate skills, merely need encouragement to participate and flourish in public life. Such an approach does not consider the social and political context in which women operate and that undoubtedly affects their ability to participate. #Quote by Nadje Al-Ali

#111. Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. #Quote by Victor Hugo

#112. I am open to receiving help with moving forward toward my dreams and aspirations. #Quote by Renae A. Sauter

#113. The best way to love your man, is to help him rise, let him feel his worth so strongly through your eyes; that he has no option but to become greater. #Quote by Nikki Rowe

#114. Disempowerment," Michael [Marmot] told me, "is at the heart of poor health" - physical, mental, and emotional. #Quote by Johann Hari

#115. If you see something dynamic in another person, speak up. It's time to stop letting haters set the precedent, while negativity becomes the default setting. #Quote by Andrena Sawyer

#116. My grandfather created a fortune that allowed him to live in luxury. He also went on to build the first industrial building in an area of San Paulo that eventually became one of the largest wholesale neighborhoods in the world. When my grandfather passed away, he left millions of dollars to my family as an inheritance. That inheritance, however, would have been worthless if he had not also given us his legacy of personal responsibility and work ethic. My grandfather refused to be defined by others, therefore setting not only the value of his product, but also of himself and his family. #Quote by Celso Cukierkorn

#117. keep out your faith from cash.. or you will get nothing but crash. #Quote by Toge Aprilianto

#118. Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger." #Quote by Paul Gauguin

#119. Women face an uphill battle, from sexism and violence to inequality. In some areas, they are forced to deal with a culture that promotes primitive practices that endanger them, not just physically, but emotionally as well. #Quote by Hagir Elsheikh

#120. I was always taught them when you're lucky enough to learn something or have some advantage you should share it. #Quote by Areva Martin

#121. Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation. #Quote by Ann Druyan

#122. He has a way of drawing His loves back to Himself. A psyche separated from the peace (and the freedom) of Christ is liable to entangle itself in all sorts of folly and vanity, or confused witchcraft. On the one side it will preach, 'Empowerment!' But on the other it will scream, 'Oppression!' Yes, you now have the power to be oppressed: because as long as you look to be a victim, you will find yourself to be a victim. #Quote by Criss Jami

#123. In order to break free from the chains that bind, one must take whatever action they can to disconnect internally from the larger systems of oppression, of which the family unit is merely a microcosm. #Quote by Sil Lai Abrams

#124. Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothers - past & present. #Quote by Eleesha

#125. Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost. #Quote by Roger Dawson

#126. I have to hand it to the patriarchy. It has been a brilliant and comprehensive strategy to keep women under control, to create so many hurdles and levels of difficulty - both overt and covert, both in the workplace and in the home, both through the tax system and the lack of services - that women must expend much of their energy just overcoming them and have little left over for battling promotion and higher wages. Exhaustion is a feminist issue. #Quote by Jane Caro

#127. Without their uniforms, they were probably nobodies, rejects. Give a man a uniform. Give him a few sparkly badges, a purpose, a gun ... and suddenly, he was no longer just another kid trying to make it through life without being ridiculed. Suddenly, he was a part of something. Something important. Something powerful. Something greater than he could ever be on his own. It was amazing how empowering the group could be. #Quote by Kelseyleigh Reber

#128. MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. #Quote by Christopher Hitchens

#129. I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy. #Quote by Richard Thaler

#130. Until those charismatic churches who have poor teaching can supply both spiritual empowerment and sounder teaching, many of them will continue to be only a way station for Christians who need a fresh spiritual experience but who end up taking it elsewhere once they have it. #Quote by Craig S. Keener

#131. anything is possible with the right tools and good friends #Quote by Toni Grant

#132. Burning Woman is a powerful image. A role model. A metaphor. A warning. A source of power. She is Feminine power incarnate. #Quote by Lucy H. Pearce

#133. The problem isn't that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD! #Quote by Shannon L. Alder

#134. Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish. #Quote by Steve Maraboli

#135. If you educate a man, you educate an individual; education contributes to his individual growth; it becomes his 'private property', as it were. But when you educate a woman, you educate the entire family! #Quote by Dada J.P. Vaswani

#136. Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should so often have to make the choice. A man does not, as a rule, have to choose. He gets both. Nevertheless, there have been women ... who had the choice, and chose the job and made a success of it. And there have been and are many men who have sacrificed their careers for women ... When it comes to a choice, then every man or woman has to choose as an individual human being, and, like a human being, take the consequences. #Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

#137. It's probably not just by chance that I'm alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he's terribly strong. And if he's stronger than I, I'm the one who can't live with him. ... I'm neither smart nor stupid, but I don't think I'm a run-of-the-mill person. I've been in business without being a businesswoman, I've loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I've loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I've done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice. #Quote by Coco Chanel

#138. All mothers breed dead children. #Quote by Mie Hansson

#139. A female who spoke her mind and called it like it was, was considered trouble. When a male did it, he was considered a leader and desirable. #Quote by Dianna Hardy

#140. If you have no competition there's no need to debate. #Quote by T.F. Hodge

#141. You are the TEACHER. Some people are so stuck on what you did in the past, that they don't realize that you forgave yourself, matured, and graduated from what happened.

Yet here they are stuck on that memory..wondering how you were able to move on. Time waits for no one and life keeps going.

When haters try to remind you of your past, starve their attention with silence..Just realize that you don't have time to supervise adults. You got things to do and individuals to mentor.

What was designed to crush you just strengthened your walk, put confidence in your talk, and encouraged you to be content with You.

Their presence or opinion is only entertainment in the bleachers, tolerated decorations on the wall, and the uncelebrated clown at your events.

Remember you are the teacher and they are the student...take charge of your classroom!! #Quote by Kendricks Fields

#142. When I started out, all I knew was that I was not going to stay where I'd been. I was going to change. I was going to make my part of the world into something that I wanted–not wait, hope, or beg for the world to start to want me. #Quote by Jeff Mach

#143. Let what is Soulfully shared this Christmas, remind you of all you have the power to achieve. #Quote by Eleesha

#144. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. #Quote by Charlotte Bronte

#145. Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams. #Quote by Nita Ambani

#146. Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more. #Quote by Lisa Bloom

#147. Gender empowerment doesn't mean discrimination, It only means equality. #Quote by Mohith Agadi

#148. If you bow only to the infinite that is within you.
You will stand in front of the entire world. #Quote by Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne

#149. If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. #Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

#150. You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance. #Quote by Gary Hopkins

#151. My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus. #Quote by Michael Haneke

#152. Y honouring the demands of our bleeding, our blood gives us something in return. The crazed bitch from irritation hell recedes. In her place arises a side of ourselves with whom we may not-at first- be comfortable. She is a vulnerable, highly perceptive genius who can ponder a given issue and take her world by storm. When we're quiet and bleeding, we stumble upon solutions to dilemmas that've been bugging us all month. Inspiration hits and moments of epiphany rumba 'cross de tundra of our senses. In this mode of existence one does not feel antipathy towards a bodily ritual that so profoundly and reinforces our cuntpower. #Quote by Inga Muscio

#153. When they (the men, the scavengers)
come for you, do not give yourself
to them so easily.

Wear your strength like armour,
fight like a beast.
Do not let them tell you that
you belong to them.

Be fearless.
Be a lion.
Be like lava.
Rip them apart,
and burn their bones.

And when you are done,
tell the world that
you belong to no man.
That you are a lady,
a warrior,
a tsunami,
and you belong only to yourself. #Quote by Zaeema J. Hussain

#154. If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying. #Quote by Joel Osteen

#155. The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering. #Quote by Stephen Richards

#156. Carolyn Maloney led the fight to make sure that DNA evidence kits are processed and passed the Debbie Smith Bill. She, when no one almost would listen to us on the whole issue of the Taliban and its treatment of women, she helped pass the Afghan Women's Empowerment Act. #Quote by Eleanor Smeal

#157. I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample. #Quote by M.I.A.

#158. Your empowerment remains Soulfully supported from within. #Quote by Eleesha

#159. A positive response to any situation is the key to the feeling of well-being. The more we practice it the easier it becomes.
Gradually all automatic reactions are being replaced by a conscious response.
When we know we are self-empowered, we take responsibility for our emotions.
It is knowing that we have the ability to respond in a way we prefer. #Quote by Raphael Zernoff

#160. Let the Soulful will of all that exists within - gift you the knowledge to fulfill all that is, without. #Quote by Eleesha

#161. Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have. #Quote by Bryant McGill

#162. Tools of empowerment - heartset and mindset. #Quote by Akosua Dardaine Edwards

#163. Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more. #Quote by Policarpa Salavarrieta

#164. Art - in all of its forms - is not exclusive. It does not belong to any class, cast or country. Its matchless ability to express the most basic human impulses is only strengthened by its universality. It transcends language and culture, bridges social and political chasms and nurtures a collective understanding. It engenders hope, rebuilds self-respect and restores humanity. Art is a motivator, a force of empowerment and a source of support for people of all races, nationalities, ages, economic situations and genders. It is ageless, timeless and breaks through many barriers. Art brings strength to those who lack confidence, wish for a mental escape from harsh environments or who seek to restore happiness and hope in times of great need." Artfully AWARE 5 #Quote by Artfully Aware

#165. This book is dedicated to all who have been affected by sexual violence. #Quote by Robert Uttaro

#166. In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#167. Being positive all the time is such a catchy idea, and it's easy to preach. I guess that's why it is popular. But life reveals itself in successions of up's and down's and if you plan to be positive all the time you will definitely fail. #Quote by Gudjon Bergmann

#168. It is strange to both fit in everywhere and belong nowhere, to never feel completely at home outside of your own skin #Quote by Maquita Donyel Irvin

#169. If you have the bad MOJO of a situation or a person riding you down you must first remove that saddle. #Quote by Donavan Nelson Butler

#170. Don't ever apologize for having a soft heart, nor allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart, all you are doing is being courageous, remember that. #Quote by Efrat Cybulkiewicz

#171. Embrace the true essence of Christmas - by embracing the gift and essence of life, itself. #Quote by Eleesha

#172. Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need. #Quote by Gillian Anderson

#173. There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit. #Quote by Steve Maraboli

#174. Power comes to those who take it. #Quote by Sharon Law Tucker

#175. Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being. #Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

#176. take out your love from lies... or you will get a lot to loose. #Quote by Toge Aprilianto

#177. I believe that women's liberation - or second-wave feminism, as it is now known - was born from the pill, not the other way around. Safe, effective, affordable contraception allowed half the human race to imagine and create a different future for themselves. That is certainly how it worked for me. #Quote by Jane Caro

#178. Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you will no longer use disempowered language about yourself, and nor will you ever negatively define yourself by what has occurred in your past. #Quote by Miya Yamanouchi

#179. I want to change my life ... except I sort of like it. I mean, I couldn't be more delighted every Monday night after Fletch goes to bed when I come downstairs, pull up the Bachelor on TiVo, drink Riesling, and eat cheddar/port wine Kaukauna cheese without freakign out over fat grams. I'm perpetually in a good mood because I do everything I want. I love having the freedom to skip the gym to watch a Don Knots movie on the Disney Channel without a twinge of guilt. I've figured out how to not be beholden to what other people believe I should be doing, and when the world tells me I ought to be a size eight, I can thumb my nose at them in complete empowerment. #Quote by Jen Lancaster

#180. Diversity is one of humanity's greatest strengths – so be yourself. Find out what makes you look and feel beautiful in your own eyes. Vigorous womanhood can look any way you want it to and can encompass whatever elevates your life and allows you to live your unique spiritual purpose. #Quote by Elizabeth Eiler

#181. Sometimes we need to examine who we are,
what we stand for and the people we allow in our lives. #Quote by Christine Willson

#182. You have to be a best friend to yourself. If you hate yourself then everyone else will see that and they won't like you either. You have to be your own best friend. You can rely on yourself, Jack. You can trust yourself. That's the secret. When you blame everyone else for your bad luck, it takes away your power to help yourself. #Quote by Jacqueline Edgington

#183. Being born into this world involves taking on a conditioned view of identity - for a while at least. We are all conditioned from a very young age to believe that we are separate and incomplete, and that if we could only just get something additional then we will somehow become whole. #Quote by Dhyana Stanley

#184. The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you. What is most important is that the student uses that power intelligently and wisely. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#185. Our personal history does not inhibit our present or our future. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you you can't do something. Find your passion and take action everyday to work towards achieving your life purpose. #Quote by Miya Yamanouchi

#186. These words are not just destined to be shared with the mind - but, the Soul. #Quote by Eleesha

#187. I founded the King Hussein Foundation after my husband's death in 1999, to build on his humanitarian vision and legacy in the country and abroad, through programs promoting education and leadership, economic empowerment, tolerance, cross-cultural dialogue, and media that enhances mutual understanding and respect among different cultures across conflict lines. #Quote by Queen Noor Of Jordan

#188. When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women. #Quote by Sheryl WuDunn

#189. She lives in the feminist "wishful-thinking world," as the Village Voice called it, dreamed up by creator Amy Sherman Palladino, where single moms raise brilliant daughters and men are nothing more than trifling distractions. I live in a post-feminist world that kicked in after the advent of Gilmore Girls, a place where Maureen Dowd asks Are Men Necessary? and we answer, "Not really." Modern girls may not talk as fast as the Gilmore girls or engage in witty repartee with colorful townsfolk, but as far as female empowerment goes, we're catching up fast. #Quote by Jennifer Crusie

#190. People don't complete us. We complete ourselves. If we haven't the power to complete ourselves, the search for love becomes a search for self-annihilation; and then we try to convince ourselves that self-annihilation is love. #Quote by Erica Jong

#191. Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we've given them permission to be impossible. #Quote by Craig D. Lounsbrough

#192. In this era, I-ways are as essential as Highways ... We need both Information Ways and Highways. #Quote by Narendra Modi

#193. I believe the message in the hymn "Rise Up, O Men of God" (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe ourselves in the mantle of holiness; to reach and stretch and grasp for that spiritual direction and sacred empowerment promised to the Lord's agents, to those charged to act in the name of our Principal, Jesus Christ; and to point the way to salvation and deliverance and peace in a world that finds itself enshrouded in darkness, a world that yearns for spiritual leadership. #Quote by Robert L. Millet

#194. Speak gently but look out for your rights. #Quote by Christine De Pizan

#195. Do not freak out when you lose your friends, partners, lovers, family, job and experience physical challenges. It is a temporary time of recalibration. It will balance itself out, when you allow your fears to transform in a loving way, as they now push to the surface seeking your recognition, and validation. #Quote by Raphael Zernoff

#196. If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent. #Quote by Honore De Balzac

#197. That's not in my yard. #Quote by Katrina Katen

#198. IF YOU CHOKE YOUR POTENTIAL BEFORE IT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A POSSIBILITY YOU WILL NEVER REACH YOUR DESTINY #Quote by Mo Stegall

#199. We're building the ultimate experience for fun, flexibility, and empowerment where you can rent a car, fill it with discounted gas, meet new people, stop for a Starbucks coffee, and have your earnings deposited into your bank account all in the same day. #Quote by Logan Green

#200. It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it's purpose in your life. #Quote by Chinonye J. Chidolue