Empowering Quotes

• When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Change
  • Destiny

• A friend of mine had died, and I went for an audition. It was weird and cathartic: the producer was very excited about the piece, but my brain wasn't working, and it all seemed really pointless and fickle. I told them I didn't want to be there any more, and left. It was the most terrifying and empowering audition experience I've had.

  

  Darren Boyd
  • Experience
  • Friend
  • Brain

• I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Freedom
  • Find
  • Fearlessness

• My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Choices
  • Judge

• Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

  

  Ian Davis
  • People
  • Words
  • Risk

• There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Women
  • She

• Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Desire
  • Celebration
  • Pentecost

• There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

  

  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
  • Power
  • Interesting
  • Empowering

• The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Important
  • Democracy
  • Interest

• You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The 'Window Manager,' 'Event Manager,' and 'Menu Manager.' Those are things that I worked on that were empowering other people.

  

  Bill Atkinson
  • People
  • Empowering

• 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 Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority. We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Happy
  • Words
  • Inspire

• Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

  

  Dannii Minogue
  • Women
  • Positive
  • Empowering

• My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.

  

  Pierre Omidyar
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Empowering

• Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Dream
  • Support

• Putting myself out there knowing I can be criticized - it's ironic, but to me, that's the most empowering thing.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Empowering
  • Ironic

• The Internet and digital technologies can and will boost economic, social, and political development, including by vastly expanding the capacity of individuals to enjoy their right to freedom of speech and expression, which is key to empowering human rights.

  

  Alexander De Croo
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Empowering

• I've never been able to lift my own weight, and the day when you have that capacity, it's pretty empowering!

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Pretty
  • Empowering

• I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

  

  Dominique Dawes
  • People
  • Work
  • Athlete

• Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Women
  • Support
  • Doe

• We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • World
  • High

• I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Realize

• There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Giving
  • Hair
  • Artist

• 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
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

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