empowerment quotes

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You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Dolly Parton

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Lady Gaga

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Maya Angelou

My fat never made me less money.

Dolly Parton

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Billy Graham

Bring them on.

George W. Bush

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

Muhammad Ali

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Maya Angelou

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Bill Gates

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Maya Angelou

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao Tzu

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Maya Angelou

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Thomas Jefferson

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Joyce Meyer

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Maya Angelou

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Joel Osteen

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Maya Angelou

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Conor McGregor

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Maya Angelou

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Maya Angelou

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Kevin Hart

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Taylor Swift

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Bill Gates

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Joyce Meyer

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

H. L. Mencken

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

H. L. Mencken

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Dolly Parton

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Joel Osteen

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Maya Angelou

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Robert Kiyosaki

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Joyce Meyer

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

Lady Gaga

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

William Shakespeare

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Lady Gaga

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Dolly Parton

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Greta Thunberg

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Joyce Meyer

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Maya Angelou

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Ray Bradbury

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Maya Angelou

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Taylor Swift

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Matthew McConaughey

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Christopher Hitchens

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Bill Gates

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Hunter S. Thompson

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

Dolly Parton

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Richard M. Nixon

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

George Eliot

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Benjamin Disraeli