Jean Houston Quotes

Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

People can take power over their communities and over their lives. Some people don't realize they can do that. They think 'It's OK for other people, but I myself can't do it.' Hopefully, that will come out of the film.

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

People, wherever they are, can make a community.

Love IS the People's Power

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

Serving reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them.

I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so I've seen and interacted with abject poverty. But I also know that because of that, poverty is not the definition of the people that live there.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

I teach people how to become limitless.

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.

I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop

The people, they are the ones with the real answers.

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

It sounds corny to say, but the theater is sacred; something transcendent can occur, and when it does, everyone grows. It's a true communion.