Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.
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The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.
The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
When you are authentic, you create a certain energy... people want to be around you because you are unique.
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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