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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
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Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment. -- Amy Jo Martin
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. -- Gillian Anderson
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. -- Anna Friel
Clarity enables Empowerment -- Millen Livis
Empowerment of the senses is in the steps of dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going. -- Ken Blanchard
Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency. -- Steve Maraboli
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. -- Henry Mintzberg
TED-The Empowerment Dynamic-counteracts the poison of DDT, the Dreaded Dram Triangle. TED is the antidote for DDT. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself. -- Wayne Dyer
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Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
The parastatals are an important driver of the process of Black Economic Empowerment and they have been doing it, and will continue to do it. -- Thabo Mbeki
Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it. -- Michael Marmot
Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions; that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life. -- Steve Maraboli
Empowerment is constantly challenging oneself with something difficult that tests his power of nerve, knack, skill, aptitude, attitude and wisdom to do things diligently, delightfully but differently. -- Anuj
The National Empowerment Fund we established some time back. And one of the challenges was to build a strong enough asset base for it to operate in a credible manner. And we believe that it can. -- Thabo Mbeki
Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours. -- Anthony Carmona
You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business? This new consolidated agency [National Empowerment Fund] focuses on that matter of preparing people so that they can run business successfully. -- Thabo Mbeki
What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard to the Black Empowerment process in the case of small and medium business, is shortage of credit or difficulties of accessing credit. -- Thabo Mbeki
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. -- Eleanor Smeal
In service, there is clarity and compassion. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. -- Barbara Jordan
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. -- Nora Ephron
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. -- Coco Chanel
The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community. -- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. -- Wayne Dyer
Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. -- Gloria Steinem
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -- Margaret Thatcher
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. -- Roseanne Barr
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. -- Albert Schweitzer
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment. -- Martha Beck
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. -- Albert Schweitzer
I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents. -- Tina Brown
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation. -- Michelle Bachelet
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. -- Charlotte Bronte
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? -- Desmond Tutu
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. -- Audrey Hepburn
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 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
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 Lennox
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. -- Audre Lorde
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
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. -- Nita Ambani
Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment. -- John Ridley
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
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. -- Patricia Ireland
New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. -- Deepak Chopra
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
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
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
I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues. -- Khloe Kardashian
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 Bachelet
We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. -- Annie Lennox
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. -- Ban Ki-moon
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. -- William J. Clinton
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II. -- Rick Atkinson
World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size. -- Donella Meadows
I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real. -- Kelly Cutrone
The supermarket chain Whole Foods has quite a radical employee empowerment program, where employees get to decide whether another employee can work in their team or not. If they think this person's a slacker, doesn't have good ideas, they can vote and say, no, we don't want this person to be working with us on the vegetable aisle. -- Tim Harford
At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds. -- Sarah Kay
Whatever you are, be a good one -- Abraham Lincoln
We must become the change we want to see -- Mahatma Gandhi
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result -- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-education is self-empowerment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Equality begins with economic empowerment. -- George H. W. Bush
Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment. -- Stephen Covey
Stress is an unstranformed opportunity for empowerment. -- Doc Childre
Education is the key to self-development and empowerment -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I am passionate about women's empowerment and women's ways. -- Stephanie Moore
being woman is natural realizing being womanhood is empowerment to this nature . -- lity munshi
Sword of Raks is a symbol of a dancer with creative empowerment -- Shah Asad Rizvi
A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq. -- Richard Engel
Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment -- Myles Munroe
...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. -- Kofi Annan
The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love. -- Jack Canfield
Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system. -- David Amerland
Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development. -- Narendra Modi
Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East. -- Dalia Mogahed
I prefer the word "engagement." Instead of empowerment, it's enabling women to engage in business. -- Sallie Krawcheck
They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge. -- Frederick Lenz
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment. -- Joss Whedon
We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal. -- Chris Bowen
When the personality comes to serve the energy of the soul that is authentic empowerment. -- Gary Zukav
The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box. -- Andrew McCarthy
Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people. -- Michael Manley
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously -- Wayne Dyer
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously. -- Wayne Dyer
My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education. -- Joyce Banda
Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone! -- John Randolph Price
Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity. -- Guy Fieri
A real, healthy relationship is about empowerment and love and that should be standard - but it isn't. -- Debby Ryan
You are afraid of your own empowerment as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered. -- Caroline Myss
An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children. -- Charisse Montgomery
Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic. -- Georges St-Pierre
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited. -- Barbara Marciniak
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. -- Julia Cameron
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me. -- Toni Cade Bambara
Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous. -- Ted Andrews
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism. -- George E. P. Box
From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance. -- Rose McGowan
The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further -- Ashley Judd
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment. -- Marianne Williamson
I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please. -- Laura Vandervoort
One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment. -- Robert E. Quinn
The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all? -- Kourtney Kardashian
I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work. -- Paul Stanley
It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places...Rather, today's clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones... -- Demi Moore
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women. -- Sheryl WuDunn
Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves. -- Kat Graham
I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself. -- Ji Lee
Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here. -- Irina Bokova
When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity. -- Tammy Bruce

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