define personal power as a state of mind in which a person is confident he can handle whatever may come. This kind of power not only successfully deals with problems, challenges and adversity, it actually welcomes them, meets them head on, and is thankful for them. Personal power isn't the absence of fear. Even the most powerful people have fear. Personal power is the result of feeling fear, but not giving in to the fear.

an affirmation of the power of an individual decision, however powerless the individual might appear on the surface.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

Choosing one's own way is what makes one human — and the more you own the power of your own decision-making, the more your life and outcomes will be within your control.

The degree to which you accept responsibility for everything in your life is precisely the degree of personal power you have to change or create anything in your life.

I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.

As human beings we have the power to imagine our world, to create... and cocreate... and to cohabit it.

The collective power of the State can help; but it is the individual's own power of self-help which is most important.

every individual will develop relations to other persons, to domains of accomplishment, and to his or her self.

Not in our power are all the elements which constitute our environment, such as wealth, health, reputation, social prestige, power, the lives of those we love, and death. In our power are our thinking, our intentions, our desires, our decisions. These make it possible for us to control ourselves and to make of ourselves elements and parts of the universe of nature. This knowledge of ourselves makes us free in a world of dependencies. This superiority of our powers enables us to live in conformity with nature.

I want people to see their own power.

Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence — by his own choice.

Our fundamental creative power in life is the ability to choose. To choose our thoughts, our habits, our behaviours, our relationships, our careers and even our identities.