Empowerment

Though she be but little, she is fierce!

William Shakespeare

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Ronald Reagan

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Alice Walker

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

Dr. Seuss

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Napoleon Hill

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Stephen Covey

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

Paulo Coelho

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Maya Angelou

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Les Brown

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Susan B. Anthony

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Thomas Paine