Empowerment Quotes

"Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player."

- Bill Gates

"A coach’s job is not to make decisions for the players but to guide and equip them to make the right decisions themselves."

- Greg Glassman

"Empowerment is the key to coaching."

- Sabine Haupt

"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself."

- Oprah Winfrey

""I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.""

- Bob Nardelli

""Coaching works because it’s all about you. When you connect with what you really want and why – and take action – magical things can happen.""

- Emma-Louise Elsey

""A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.""

- Elaine MacDonald

""Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.""

- Pete Carroll

""Coaching is unlocking people’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is more often helping them to learn rather than teaching them.""

- John Whitmore

""A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.""

- Tom Landry

"The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves."

- Steven Spielberg

"A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained."

- Shawn Hitchcock

"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you."

- Bob Proctor

"They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines."

- Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb

""Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world.""

- Oprah Winfrey

""Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.""

- Roald Dahl, Matilda

""Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.""

- Roy T. Bennett

""Your power is not in where you are. Your power is in where you've been.""

- T.D. Jakes

"Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don’t matter."

- Michelle Obama

"Don’t you dare shrink yourself for someone else’s comfort. Do not become small for people who refuse to grow."

- Steve Maraboli

"Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed that’s all who ever have."

- Margaret Mead

"Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them."

- Rita Pierson

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

- Margaret Mead

""Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.""

- Unknown

"Queens inspire kings."

"Be the hero a child dreams of, just by being present."

"Encourage their wings to spread and watch them soar."

"Being a foster parent is like being a superhero in plain clothes."

"Not all superheroes wear capes; some are called foster parents."

"Every child deserves a champion – and that's what foster parents are."