Quotes about Empowerment

When we can accept both our humanity and the perpetrator's we can write a new story. One in which we are no longer cast as a victim, but a survivor, even perhaps a hero.

As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress.

The word 'empower' is something that kept coming up in my heart.

You alone are enough.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

When we lead by persuasion rather than command, patience is essential. Leaders rightly cultivate the art of persuasion that allows maximum individual decision making and ownership of a plan. Often, a leader's plan of action must wait for collegial support—ever patient—until the team is ready.

The power of inspiring others to service and sacrifice will mark God's leader.

When we invite the Spirit to fill us, the Spirit's power grips our lives with this kind of strength and passion.

The filling of the Spirit is essential for spiritual leadership. And each believer has as much of the Spirit's presence as he or she will ever need. Our task is to remain yielded to Him.

True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve

Exodus 4:14). Let us not pass the buck of leadership because we think ourselves incapable.