Quotes on Empowered

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

There’s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When women become empowered and live in their strength it’s beneficiary to others, and I think as young women today we sometimes forget that we are standing on the struggle of other women. Those women had to stand up to make a change, and they were not popular, and now we’re making them unpopular again.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.

If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.

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

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.