quotes about Empowerment
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The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.
-- AgniveshSource : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.
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You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.
-- Alan Moore -
The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
-- Angela Davis -
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Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.
-- Ann Druyan -
Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?
-- Annie LennoxSource : "Dem debaters target Bush", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.
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The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further
-- Ashley Judd -
Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
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Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.
-- Charles Bukowski -
We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.
-- Chris Bowen -
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.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
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TED-The Empowerment Dynamic-counteracts the poison of DDT, the Dreaded Dram Triangle. TED is the antidote for DDT.
-- David Emerald Womeldorff -
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
-- Desmond Tutu -
The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.
-- Don RittnerSource : Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group
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Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.
-- Eileen Caddy -
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Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.
-- Ellen DuBois -
When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.
-- Gary Zukav -
The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.
-- George E. P. Box -
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There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
-- Greta GarboSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.
-- Helene D. GayleSource : “'It Takes A Village' And More To Change Lives In Uganda" by Helene D. Gayle, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2012.
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Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
-- Henry MintzbergSource : Henry Mintzberg (2013). “Simply Managing: What Managers Do — and Can Do Better”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
-- Hillary Clinton -
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The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.
-- Jack CanfieldSource : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.162, Vintage
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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. ConeSource : James H. Cone (1992). “Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare”, p.333, Orbis Books
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
-- Jane Austen -
What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives?
-- Jeannine Parvati Baker -
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I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself.
-- Ji Lee -
When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.
-- Jim Fixx -
Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone!
-- John Randolph Price -
Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone.
-- Joycelyn Elders -
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I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
-- Julia CameronSource : Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.93, Souvenir Press
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Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
-- Ken Blanchard -
Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him
-- Kenneth Wapnick -
The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.
-- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw -
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...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.
-- Kofi AnnanSource : Twitter post from May 11, 2016
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It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.
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THE JOURNEY IS FROM HERE TO HERE. AND THE ONLY TIME YOU CAN ARRIVE IS NOW.
-- Leonard Jacobson -
A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
-- Loretta Young -
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For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.
-- Mae West -
Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami -
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
-- Marianne Williamson -
The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.
-- Megan Abbott -
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
-- Mel BrooksSource : "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.
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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.
-- Michael Haneke -
Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.
-- Michael ManleySource : Michael Manley (1991). “The poverty of nations: reflections on underdevelopment and the world economy”, Pluto Pr
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My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
-- Michelle Bachelet -
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.
-- Michelle BacheletSource : "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.
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I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
-- Michelle Obama -
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
-- Patricia Ireland -
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The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and not playing by the rules, you can sing about them until you can't sing anymore.
-- Paul Stanley -
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
-- Paul Valery -
Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.
-- Policarpa Salavarrieta -
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?
-- Reinhard Bonnke -
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Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.
-- Rob Brezsny -
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
-- Seamus Heaney -
Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?
-- Shantideva -
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.
-- Sheryl WuDunnSource : Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.228, Vintage
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Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.
-- Shoshana Zuboff -
If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!
-- Sid Caesar -
I am passionate about women's empowerment and women's ways.
-- Stephanie Moore -
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
-- Stephen Covey -
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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions
-- Stephen Covey -
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
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Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!
-- Susan Jeffers -
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
-- Terence McKenna -
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.
-- Wayne Dyer -
I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool. I didn't want to go, because I've put on like a hundred pounds.
-- Wendy Liebman -
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.
-- Christina Baldwin -
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Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.
-- David Amerland -
Stress is an unstranformed opportunity for empowerment.
-- Doc Childre -
Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.
-- James Gustave Speth -
I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about not knowing you have it in you, but when called to task, you rise and you find out who you are.
-- Joseph McGinty Nichol -
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President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.
-- Lael BrainardSource : "Political leaders often overlook the key to economic growth: women" by Lael Brainard, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.
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I am a feminist, but I'm not an extremist. I know what feminism is, but I'm not all women empowerment, marching in the streets. I'm not a die-hard girl's girl.
-- Scheana Marie -
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
-- Weili Dai -
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.
-- Richard Thaler -
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New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from.
-- Roselyn SanchezSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I prefer the word "engagement." Instead of empowerment, it's enabling women to engage in business.
-- Sallie KrawcheckSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.
-- Laura Vandervoort -
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.
-- Madam C. J. Walker -