Empowerment Quotes - Page 2

The coming decade belongs to the right of the poor and the marginalised. The BJP is very clear on that.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.

There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are women’s literacy and gainful economic employment.

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

For every mountain, there is a miracle.

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.

I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy.