Quotes about Empowerment

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl everybody else wants to know

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees.

To successfully work with other people, you have to trust each other. A big part of this is trusting people to get their work done wherever they are, without supervision."‡

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees. Employees need to ask permission before they can do anything. They need to get approval for every tiny expenditure.

In Scripture we see example after example of God coming alongside people who felt weak and inadequate—who felt the absence of the strength needed for the assignment they'd been given—and calling them to be strong. In fact, there are more than thirty occasions in the Bible where God commands someone to be strong.

We, the Church, hold the keys. We are His body—His hands, feet, voice—and what He does, He will do through us. We are Plan A, and there is no Plan B.

Anything we accomplish of eternal value is brought about by the ability and empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

What God asks us to do, He equips us to do.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, both in the natural and moral world.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.