Top 100 Empowering Quotes
#1. When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating.
Billy Porter
#2. When he was alive, you shared a great affinity. A love of writing, books, Shakespeare, journalism, a certain way of looking at the world," Marla says. "You must have felt very validated by him, understood for who you were. Your incredible connection to him was very empowering.
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
#3. He who lives in the hearts of others never dies! Truly impacting and empowering people where you make a huge difference.
Samuel Nazer Walsh
#4. You can choose instead to live in the enriching, empowering light of your own highest visions. You can always choose to grow, to achieve, and to fulfill by immersing your awareness in life's ever-present goodness.
Ralph Marston
#5. Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
Pema Chodron
#6. Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.
Marcia Whicker
#7. Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.
Annie Lennox
#8. No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.
Steve Maraboli
#9. I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.
Alanis Morissette
#10. Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.
Michael Bergdahl
#11. It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.
Ani DiFranco
#12. We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.
Sally Kohn
#13. And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.
Lauren Myracle
#14. What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#15. The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
Ben Carson
#16. The vision is about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past
Bill Gates
#17. The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'
Helmut Thielicke
#18. We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about "who we are" in Christ and that God is in control.
Michael Barbarulo
#19. People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists are about is like pole dancing and girls gone wild and how empowering it is. Like they'll start calling anything feminist.
Jessica Valenti
#20. Don't be a slave to your limiting beliefs. It's your mind, so take control of it today. Stop following the beliefs that don't help you. Create empowering beliefs that will serve you better.
Maddy Malhotra
#21. In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.
Clayton M Christensen
#22. For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.
Christian Louboutin
#23. I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have fifty cents left in my bank account" is a fact. Facing facts is always empowering. Be
Eckhart Tolle
#24. Preserve, Conserve, Inspire, Teach. Empowering children to be planet-citizens; to care about the planet, themselves and eachtother! Breath-of-fresh-air books that speak to the heart of children - is what matters to me."
- Stephanie Tara, author, mom, activist
Stephanie Lisa Tara
#25. God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.
Kay Arthur
#26. If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
Adrienne Rich
#27. Some people believe they are destined for a life of continuous struggle. However, if you have a desire to live a more empowering life, creating an abundance of joy & easily attracting success to you.
David Riklan
#28. Self discovery is the most empowering time of your life, you remember who you are and you become the best version of yourself but what they forget to tell you is, to get to a point of pleasure you must face the pain.
Nikki Rowe
#29. There is no other experience more empowering and undying than the experience of uniting unconditionally with the Conscience of God. From the forthcoming book: What is Man.
Rohan Perera
#30. The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.
Gloria Steinem
#31. How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live is an excellent book...very transformative and empowering..lot of practical advise for people struggling to overcome any problem in their life
Nandita Keshavan
#32. It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.
Gloria Estefan
#33. I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we're afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. The world we think we see is only a view, a collective description of the world that we create through our belief systems. Accepting this fact seems to be one of the most empowering things one can do.
David Wolfe
#35. I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
Jane Goodall
#36. I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries.
Steve Maraboli
#37. Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help you find more than just material success. Through its empowering and practical lessons, readers will find inspiration as they embark on their careers.
Marc Kielburger
#38. Don't let your tragedies fool you, they were never meant to alter your path; just re-pave your direction. Spend time nurturing the things that once tore you apart and you will find within you, your most empowering strength.
Nikki Rowe
#39. Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.
Robert Rodriguez
#40. I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.
Hal Elrod
#41. Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.
Mike Quigley
#42. You are the candle, love is the light, enlighten the mind, and heart with your empowering light.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Surrender is not a weakness, but rather an empowering state of humility.
Bryant McGill
#44. Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.
Chris Hemsworth
#45. I really love over-the-knee boots. I think they're super sexy and they're fun. And they're also very strong and empowering.
Miranda Kerr
#46. alignment is the necessary condition before empowering the individual will empower the whole team. Empowering the individual when there is a relatively low level of alignment worsens the chaos and makes managing the team even more difficult:
Peter M. Senge
#47. If they [Playboy] could promise me it wasn't camera-between-my-knees kind of shots, I would do it. I would do topless. I think it's empowering. Though if my mother had a real big problem with it, I'd have to say no right now.
Melissa Joan Hart
#48. Learning to let go, to put the team's will first, is an empowering experience that leads to the most wonderful of all experiences: being a member of a high-performing, gungho, high-five team. Remember, leadership is not all about you.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#49. We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.
Neil Jackson
#50. Learning how to record has been super empowering for me, because I spent so many years going into the studio and watching other people do it. I guess a lot of musicians have gone through this because now recording is really available for everybody.
Julia Kent
#51. The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Barbara Coloroso
#52. Above all, we want Millennials to realize that they can have an impact on the world and that, in the course of empowering others, they can also empower themselves.
Nicholas Kristof
#53. Shine the light of awareness on your disempowering beliefs and choose to substitute them with empowering beliefs. This way you will choose love over fear and your path to purpose becomes clear.
Sharon Kirstin
#54. It's empowering for women to have some tricks up their sleeve to help them look their best.
Nina Garcia
#55. If we succeed in empowering girls, we'll succeed in everything else.
Desmond Tutu
#56. Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear.
Jack Canfield
#57. listen to Marcus Aurelius's empowering call to "get active in your own rescue - if you care for yourself at all - and do it while you can.
Ryan Holiday
#58. A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.
John C. Maxwell
#60. Christ's dwelling and empowering us makes us realize the hope of glory
Sunday Adelaja
#61. The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.
Donald Luskin
#63. Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.
Dina Powell
#64. There is a difference between helping, comforting, feeding, and empowering people. As I've said many times: Simply giving money (or entitlements) to poor people only serves to keep them poor longer.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#65. To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.
Madonna Ciccone
#66. Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you: When Rasulallah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam empowered the sahaba, did that take away from his authority or did it empower him?
Nouman Ali Khan
#67. I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
Georgina Chapman
#68. Many different factors make up a fitness phenomenon, but the most critical are a sense of community, a ton of fun, a sense of accomplishment, and an empowering component that makes people feel they can become or do anything they want.
Jillian Michaels
#69. In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down corporate special interest money. At the national level, Congress should follow Maine's example by empowering the voices of small donors.
Chellie Pingree
#70. Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism.
We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#71. I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.
Jeb Bush
#72. I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
Queen Latifah
#73. Are your thoughts empowering or limiting?
Bob Proctor
#74. There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
#75. I studied calculus for the first time, which to me was an amazingly empowering experience which I could really see how you could understand all sorts of things, and I decided that chemistry and biology just had too much memory for me to be interested. Physics was very easy.
Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth
#76. The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouseclick away.
Jakob Nielsen
#77. It's time to WAKE UP and make empowering choices.
Darren Hardy
#78. What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your outfit should mean business. If I go to meet somebody about an acting job, or something creative, then I'll be in my jeans. For me, overdressing is my biggest fear.
Twiggy
#79. Merely wanting something is disempowering. Being committed to change your personal life and circumstances is empowering.
Shannon Tanner
#80. Unknowingly we make our emotional states worse by using and relating high-intensity negative words to our experiences in life. You can use empowering/positive words to change how you think, which will then change your feelings, decisions and results.
Maddy Malhotra
#81. There's no need to be fearful when another person succeeds. In fact, joining forces and supporting fellow teachers (or co-workers) you believe in is one of the most empowering moves you can make.
Kathryn Budig
#82. I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.
Dave Chappelle
#83. Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.
Ashlee Simpson
#84. I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
Karen Elson
#85. Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework.
Clayton Christensen
#86. I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#87. Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.
Clayton Christensen
#88. I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.
Jennifer Hudson
#89. So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.
Bobbi Brown
#90. It's an empowering idea. The entire goliath of the food industry is driven and determined by the choices we make as the waiter gets impatient for our order or in the practicalities ad whimsies of what we load into our shopping carts or farmers'-market bags.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#91. I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.
Anne Wojcicki
#92. The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and them empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.
Rush Limbaugh
#93. In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
Jack Canfield
#94. Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.
Amy Richards
#95. As I began to get a deeper understanding of the vital life-saving work Save the Children does, I felt compelled to help in any way I could. This is about safe-keeping, inspiring and empowering a future generation - to facilitate them to make their own lives a little bit better.
Erin O'Connor
#96. Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.
Teri Hatcher
#97. I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.
Gary Holland
#98. The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.
Paul McCartney
#99. Disaster mitigation ... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.
Ian Davis
#100. BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.
Tim Wu
