Empowerment Quotes

"The world always needs new heroes."

- Jordan Peterson

"Every day, you have the power to choose our better history — by opening your hearts and minds, by speaking up for what you know is right."

- Michelle Obama

"The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will."

- Amy Tenney

"A vibrant, fair, and regenerative future is possible — not when thousands of people do climate justice activism perfectly but when millions of people do the best they can."

- Xiye Bastida

"We can do this. This is the biggest emergent social movement in all of history. We can do this. And if anybody thinks that we don’t have the political will, remember, political will is itself a renewable resource."

- Al Gore

"Every person has the power to make a difference, and every person should try."

- Jane Goodall

"Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me."

- Eddie van Halen

"Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness."

- Jason Mraz

"Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond."

- Ray Charles

"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."

- Booker T. Washington

"The most common way people give up power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"Recognition is the golden key unlocking the treasure chest of human potential."

- Oliver Westwood

"Recognition is the gentle rain that nourishes the seeds of greatness sown in others."

- Ella Thompson

"Appreciation is the sunrise that awakens the dormant seeds of greatness within others."

- Stella Roberts

"Only I can change my life. No one else can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be."

- James Baldwin

"If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours."

- Noam Chomsky

"Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom. The power to choose, to respond, to change."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Anger is an indication that we are lacking emotional intelligence."

- Daniel Goleman

"He who angers you conquers you."

- Elizabeth Kenny

"Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!"

- Rocky Balboa

"It’s your right to listen to your gut, it ain’t nobody’s right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!"

- Rocky Balboa

"Your voice matters; never let anyone silence your unique perspective."

- Unknown

"Your voice counts."

- Unknown

"As a teen, you have 2 powerful resources with you: time and energy. Use them to mold your world."

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."

"Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure."

"You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious."

"You have the power to change someone's day with your words and actions."