Empowerment Quotes

"Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me."

- Barbara Colorose

"Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure you do things differently from everyone else."

- Sara Blakely

"I believe everyone in the world is born with genius-level talent. Apply yourself to whatever you’re genius at, and you can do anything in the world."

- Jay-Z

""There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.""

- W.E.B. DuBois

"You expect good things from the New Year, you expect hope, but the New Year also has something to tell you: You create both the good things and the hope yourself, so don't expect anything, do it yourself, create it yourself, don't wait!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!"

- Russell T Davies

"You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have—arm yourselves!"

- Russell T Davies

"Our needs are identical with labor’s needs – decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old age security, health and welfare measures."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Create an environment where people can take risks. If everything has to be brilliant from the word go, you're never gonna get off the ground."

- Paul Hewson, a.k.a Bono

"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Do the thing and you will have the power."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."

- Jane Goodall

"It is what it is. But you have the power to turn it into an isn't so bad."

- Karen Salmansohn

"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."

- Howard Zinn

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"Change often seems impossible until it is inevitable. Just as we must own our lives, we must own our country. For we, the people, are ultimately in control of America's story."

- Valerie Jarrett

"In a gentle way you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm the only one with the authority to surrender it, I can also take it back."

- Helen Oyeyemi

"In our perfect ways, in the ways we are beautiful, in the ways we are human –we are here. Happy New Year's. Let's make it ours."

- Beyoncé

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

"Our destiny is not written for us, it's written by us."

- Barack Obama

"The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world."

- Susan B. Anthony

"Life coaching is all about empowerment, personal growth, and positive change."

- Nancy Salamone

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

- John Whitmore

"Stop asking how the world wants us to be and start asking how we want the world to be."

- Glennon Doyle

"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

"A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him (her) anymore."

- Andre Agassi

"All coaching is, is taking someone where they can't take themself."

- Paul McCartney

"Strong women lift each other and weights."

- Unknown