Quotes About Empowered

#1. If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

David Sobel

#2. Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting, however inspired,can convince the actor herself that her ideal female life is not a dreadful form of dying.

Andrea Dworkin

#3. We come from a somewhat puritanical and chauvinistic point-of-view, so that when we're asked questions about women being empowered by sexuality, we often confuse it with women who are victimized by it.

Amber Heard

#4. Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

Caroline Myss

#5. Never, ever, take a "no" from someone who's not empowered to give you a "yes" in the first place.

Peter Greenberg

#6. There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

Andrea Jung

#7. The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

Michael Novak

#8. Whenever you stand firmly in the midst of a hardship, holding and expressing the love that you are, you will witness illusions falling away. Through being the love that you are, you are empowered to transcend your sufferings.

Glenda Green

#9. Modelling, fashion and film have all encouraged me to learn more about issues and to feel empowered enough to do something about them.

Lily Cole

#10. The thing about being powerful is that it may be a limited edition... as the source of the power goes you go; but becoming empowered will last a lifetime.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#11. God's dream is the kingdom, that's already clear. But what is not always clear is that God's kingdom happens when human beings are empowered by God's Spirit to do God's kingdom work in the shape of a new community.

Scot McKnight

#12. If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!

Michael Eisen

#13. Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.

Peter Diamandis

#14. Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Wallace Stegner

#15. The bitch is an empowered woman who derives tremendous strength from the ability to be an independent thinker, particularly in a world that still teaches women how to be self-abnegating. This woman doesn't live someone else's standards, only her own.

Sherry Argov

#16. I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

Amanda Palmer

#17. Gifts are given by God and empowered by God to glorify God.

Gloria Furman

#18. It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's done something else to weaken the country. He's empowered a base that loathes American excellence.

Dennis Quaid

#19. You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Tom Ridge

#20. The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.

Mark Zandi

#21. One who reads is the one that is empowered

Valarie DeShazier

#22. Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones, and won't rest until everyone, everywhere is empowered with that opportunity.

Jan Koum

#23. Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus' love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart.

F.F. Bruce

#24. You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

Adam Arkin

#25. I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being.

Louise Hay

#26. I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.

Bryan Burrough

#27. 'A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.

Rebel Wilson

#28. 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.

Milton Friedman

#29. By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.

Stephen Covey

#30. High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#31. The act of taking offence becomes a weapon, and its wielder feels empowered by the false indignation.

Steven Erikson

#32. The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality.

Steve Maraboli

#33. I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.

James Gleick

#34. They are very different. Women who are empowered by it and have choices based off of their sexuality, are very different from the ones that are being taken advantage of.

Amber Heard

#35. An Educated Woman is an Empowered Woman.

Henry Johnson Jr

#36. In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

Sheena Iyengar

#37. I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I'm for anything life-affirmative. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different.

Matthew McConaughey

#38. If you are courageous enough to be still, you are a step closer to becoming empowered.

Romany Malco

#39. When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#40. I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

Christian Louboutin

#41. The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Gisele Bundchen

#42. We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

Cory Booker

#43. An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Stephen Covey

#44. See, now I don't know whether to be all 'Yay!' because you're empowered or sad because you're having delusional almost-sex with an imaginary boyfriend.

Libba Bray

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

Stephen Covey

#46. School feeding is a great tool to encourage education and provide food aid to children born into extremely impoverished situations. The kids in school being fed by WFP are empowered by their school meal to learn and better their lives!

Lauren Bush

#47. I am empowered by self-knowledge, by ownership of my experiences, and by all aspects of myself.

Maureen Brady

#48. 'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children

Andrea O'Reilly

#49. Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

Jane Fonda

#50. Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.

Shannon L. Alder

#51. We naturally take in the catastrophes of our friends a pleasure which genuinely does not preclude friendship. This is partly but not entirely because we enjoy being empowered as helpers. The unexpected or inappropriate catastrophe is especially piquant.

Iris Murdoch

#52. Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.

Shannon L. Alder

#53. I am empowered by every problem to seek the power of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#54. 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.

Gary Zukav

#55. I have a dream. With that one sentence, Martin Luther King touched and empowered an entire nation. You know what else he did? He made everybody else without dreams feel real bad.

Christopher Titus

#56. Become Empowered, not just in Mind and Body - but in Spirit, too.

Eleesha

#57. I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.

Isaiah Mustafa

#58. With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience.

Lisa Gerrard

#59. 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.

Isabel Allende

#60. Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money.

Eddie Huang

#61. If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

Dick Thornburgh

#62. In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but ... vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works ... the good news is that everybody will be empowered; the bad news is nobody will understand why.

Mark Christensen

#63. Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

Charles Bukowski

#64. President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader ...

Aberjhani

#65. Kenya's M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

Bill Gates

#66. The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.

Madeleine Albright

#67. The disempowered mind believes dreams come true; the empowered mind knows you bring your dreams to life.

Steve Maraboli

#68. Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of completed and therefore empowered individuals.

Audre Lorde

#69. There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#70. 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.

Jonathan Franzen

#71. Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.

Bill Simmons

#72. 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

#73. I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

Alanis Morissette

#74. I'm not adorable," I said, feeling unreasonably irritated. "Chipmunks are adorable. I'm empowered.

N.M. Silber

#75. You are afraid of your own empowerment
as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered.

Caroline Myss

#76. I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

Michael Moore

#77. Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.

Gene Siskel

#78. Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#79. As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse.

Eric Schneiderman

#80. Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.

Betty Who

#81. When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact.

Pierre Omidyar

#82. And in America, when the state cultivates such fear among relatively empowered white voters, it is enriching uranium for a political nuclear weapon. It

Chris Hayes

#83. In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work group's collective results.

Price Pritchett

#84. The one surefire key to victory as a Christian in this fallen world is to be filled with the Holy Spirit - that is, to be completely submitted to and empowered by him.

Pedro Okoro

#85. Remember to use your vote. Remember to speak out and feel empowered.

Sarah Gavron

#86. That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

Dee Dee Myers

#87. Writing is Amazing!
When I write I am empowered by my thoughts, entertained by my imagination, and enlightened by my wisdom.

Theresa Lewis

#88. Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.

Peter Yarrow

#89. The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

Pallam Raju

#90. I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.

Rory Kennedy

#91. People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

Heather Brooke

#92. When you're anointed, you become blessed of God such that everything you touch or do prospers. To be "blessed" means to be empowered to prosper.

Chris Oyakhilome

#93. I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

Christina Aguilera

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

Gary Zukav

#95. The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.

Dennis Rainey

#96. Scripture, empowered by God's Spirit, is the instrument that brings people to salvation.

Jim George

#97. Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness.

Guy Finley

#98. When I think back to who I was just a few years ago, I realize, proudly, how much my challenges have empowered me to grow.

Karen Salmansohn

#99. I can't stand [female] characters that are not empowered in a certain way, or at least don't come to a conclusion at the end of the movie where they find empowerment in themselves.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#100. Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered.

Melody Beattie