Empowerment Quotes

"Treat employees like they make a difference and they will."

- Jim Goodnight

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

- Edward Everett Hale

"I'm proud of you guys! All of you!"

- Terrace Ellis

"I realized that if I was willing to step up and be in the spotlight, I’d be able to make everyone else around me much more powerful as well."

- Alaina Percival

"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard… we cannot succeed when half of us are held back."

- Malala Yousafzai

"I’m going to encourage any type of woman. You don’t have to be a woman like me for me to encourage and support you and tell you, ‘Yes, b—h, keep on going."

- Cardi B

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

- Anais Nin

"A teacher’s job is to teach students to see vitality in themselves."

- Joseph Campbell

"What an educator does in teaching is allow students to become themselves."

- Paulo Freire

"Let's destroy all hierarchies and create the space for gender, sexual, social and political self-determination for everyone."

- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

"Tell your stories. Often and loudly. We need to hear you, and you need to be heard. Tell your stories. Someone is listening. I promise."

- Tony Amato

"We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies. Genuine bonds of solidarity can be forged between people who respect each other’s differences and are willing to fight their enemy together. We are the class that does the work of the world, and can revolutionize it. We can win true liberation."

- Leslie Feinberg

"I want to make a difference in the world by speaking out and spreading hopeful messages. I want to send the message of ‘you are not alone and you are safe’ to other transgender kids."

- Rebekah Bruesehoff

"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."

- Wayne Dyer

"I genuinely hope that… anti-trans folks someday experience the joy and liberation of being comfortable in your own skin enough to know that the liberation of others is no threat to you. Equality is not a pie; there is more than enough for everyone."

- Charlotte Clymer

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about empowering others to do their best."

- Simon Sinek

"Let’s destroy all hierarchies and create the space for gender, sexual, social and political self-determination for everyone."

- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

"Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone."

- Robert Allen

"She will rise with a spine of steal and a roar like thunder. She will rise."

- Nicole Lyons

"To be the person who we long to be—we must be vulnerable. We must take off the armour, put down the weapons, show up, and let ourselves be seen."

- Brené Brown

"Remember, every pro was first an amateur. Start your dream now."

- Marie Forleo

"I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be."

- Michelle Obama

"It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you – always."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You are allowed to want more for yourself for no other reason than because it makes your heart happy. You don’t need anyone’s permission, and you certainly shouldn’t have to rely on anyone’s support as the catalyst to get you there."

- Rachel Hollis

"There is a wolf inside of every woman. Her wolf is who she was made to be before the world told her who to be. Her wolf is her talent, her power, her dreams, her voice, her curiosity, her courage, her dignity, her choices—her truest identity."

- Abby Wambach

"If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works."

- Louise Hay

"Keep your thoughts directed at your goal, do everything that you DO know how to do to make it happen, decide with unwavering determination that it will happen, and be on the lookout for the opportunity."

- Jen Sincero

"Hold the vision. Trust the process."

"Never regret a day in your life. Good days bring you happiness and bad days bring you experience."

"Results happen overtime not overnight – work hard, stay consistent and be patient."