Quotes About Empowerment

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.

Those who know how to transform a hopeless situation into a new flow activity that can be controlled will be able to enjoy themselves, and emerge stronger from the ordeal.

Unselfconscious self-assurance. [...] one common attitude shared by such people was the implicit belief that their destiny was in their hands.

Unselfconscious self-assurance. [...] one common attitude shared by such people was the implicit belief that their destiny was in their hands. [...] This attitude occurs when a person no longer sees himself in opposition to the environment, as an individual who insists that his goals, his intentions take precedence over everything else.

Power returns to the person when rewards are no longer relegated to outside forces. It is no longer necessary to struggle for goals that always seem to recede into the future, to end each boring day with the hope that tomorrow, perhaps, something good will happen. Instead of forever straining for the tantalizing prize dangled just out of reach, one begins to harvest the genuine rewards of living.

Since what we experience is reality, as far as we are concerned, we can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the outside world.

The important thing is that the energy is under their own control

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them," said Epictetus a long time ago. And the great emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: "If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

The whine of the victim is absent from his repertoire—as from that of practically all the individuals we interviewed.

Science is very much fun. And I think women should have the opportunity to have fun.

My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.

Sometimes it might be kinder to kill a man, than to take his dreams from him.

Constantine proclaimed that everyone should be allowed to live according to his conscience, without fear.13

The Power of Influence I've realized that I choose not to spend much time with people who are trying to change me. If they take me on as a project to "fix," I don't respond well. But when they simply enter my life and accept me unconditionally, I become a different person because of their influence.

Martin Luther supposedly said, "You might not be able to stop the birds from landing on your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.

We will spend every hour that we have. If we don't determine where we're going to spend it, then someone else will decide for us. Who deserves the best of your time today?

Drama-free" doesn't mean getting rid of the drama or the people who create it. It means being free from its debilitating effects in our lives. This book is about getting free—not letting our lives and attitudes be controlled by the choices of others.

It means that we work on our side of the relationship, no matter what happens on the other side. We don't change them; we change ourselves.

5. You don't have to be a victim. In a toxic relationship, it's easy to feel sucked dry by another person. It's true that they might never change, and there could always be drama in the relationship. But we don't have to let them mess up our lives.

People can't drive you crazy if you don't give them the keys.

Leaders must always be looking to give away their jobs to people who can do it as well or better than they. This calls for a level of intimacy between the leader and disciple that does not last. The leader begins to disengage; the disciple now becomes a leader. The closeness remains and is no longer defined by the amount of time spent together but by the openness with one another.

aim for "low control, high accountability

The leader of an MC needs to be a disciple-maker, not merely an event-organizer.

Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.