Quotes about Empowerment
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
— Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
— Bishop TD Jakes
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
— Malcolm X
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
— John Wycliffe
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
— Wayne Dyer
Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.
— Jordan Peterson
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
— James Madison
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
At the end of the day, the enemy is going to be sorry he ever messed with you. You're about to become his worst nightmare a million times over. He thought he could wear you down, sure that after a while you'd give up without much of a fight. Well, just wait till he encounters the fight of God's Spirit in you. Because . . . This. Means. War.
— Priscilla Shirer
God's plan for you is to move you into a position of impact by infusing you with truth and employing you in prayer. You don't need to be a genius to do it. You don't need to learn ten-dollar words and be able to spout them with theological ease. You just need to bring your honest, transparent, available—and, let's just say it—your fed-up, over-it, stepped-on-your-last-nerve self, and be ready to become fervently relentless. All in His name.
— Priscilla Shirer