If you relate to power as something to be opposed and fought, you have surrendered your own.
If you relate to power as something to be opposed and fought, you have surrendered your own.
Power isn’t financial resources, status or influence over others; power is the degree over which you control your own life, and right now, if I’ve just described you, you are powerful.
Rollo Tomassi • The Rational Male
You may be less powerful than the whole world, but you are always more powerful than yourself.
Reading Gillian Rose
The titled are powerful. Those around them are expected to yield, to withdraw their opposition, and to conform to their will—in the arena in which the title was won. The exercise of power always presupposes resistance.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
Giving up our power is still playing into that fear-based, zero-sum game. I believe the world’s a much better place when we — you, me, all of us on the planet — learn how to co-create and own our power with maturity.
Tripp Lanier • This Book Will Make You Dangerous: The Irreverent Guide For Men Who Refuse to Settle
if you’re strong enough to resist against it, you’re certainly strong enough to surrender to it
Chubmeister 5000 added
But there comes a point in every story when those who were fighting to gain power gain it, and need to begin the hard work of ruling. When they’re no longer the underdog, but the ones in charge. My guess is that existentialism is going to make a comeback as people realize that self-sovereignty is a double-edged sword.
Packy McCormick • Existential Optimism
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If you need someone else to carefully wield their power and hold their space for you, then you are a victim. This is the irony of empowerment, and yet there is very little else we can do within our conventional operating system other than try our best to be conscious, empowering leaders.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Controlling others is force; controlling self is power.