Top 100 Give Them Power Quotes
#1. Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.
Tryon Edwards
#3. Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson
#4. Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.
Zephyr Teachout
#5. She still talks of fairness. What does fairness have to do with any of this? The people curse my name and pay for you, but you're the one who is ready to abandon them. I'm the one who will give them power over their enemies. I'm the one who will free them from the tyranny of the king.
Leigh Bardugo
#6. To give voice to the questions
even in my own head
would have been to give them power, to confirm the presence of doubt, to risk eventual downfall.
Nafisa Haji
#7. We must find within us a happiness with ourselves which no one else can disturb. Otherwise we give them power over us.
Aleksandra Layland
#8. If you don't forgive those who have hurt you, you give them power of you. When you forgive you are in control of yourself and emotions.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves
Otto Von Bismarck
#10. Toxic people sell you short. When you listen to them, you give them power, that's when you sell yourself short.
Tony Curl
#11. But honestly, I hate my dad the most. Because you love him the most. When you give someone your love, you give them power over you.
Shelley Coriell
#12. Words from another person cannot hurt you unless you give them power by taking them into your being, accepting them, and making them yours.
Anne Marie Evers
#13. I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.
Karrine Steffans
#14. There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness.
Srikumar Rao
#15. We build the stories in our heads. We take words, and we give them power, and we look out through other eyes, and we see, and experience, what others see. I wonder, Are fictions safe places? And then I ask myself, Should they be safe places? There
Neil Gaiman
#16. When you let another steal your joy you give them power over you. Don't let anyone steal your smile
Tammy Johnson
#17. Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn't all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.
Glenn Beck
#18. There are two powers in this world which cannot be matched. Beauty and Youth. Buy the beauty and imprison the youth. Give the best models, actress, and girls from town and nail them. I do not care how much it costs.
Ravindra Shukla
#19. Nobody has the power to make you miserable ... unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!
Gary Chapman
#20. In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
Aberjhani
#21. Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
Anthony De Mello
#22. If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.
Ralph Marston
#23. Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.
J. P. Vinluca
#24. I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in the future. I would give the coming generations a weapon against any resurgence of such evil. My eyewitness account would record the barbarous acts, and also show the way to stop them.
Friedrich Kellner
#25. Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power.
Chuck Palahniuk
#26. No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.
Maeve Greyson
#27. Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't eliminate darkness by arguing with it. The only way to eliminate darkness is to turn on a light.
Doreen Virtue
#28. Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#29. I don't believe that young people today can live clean, pure lives without the help of God. The peer pressure is too great and the temptations they see in the movies and on television, and what they hear in their music is too much. Only Christ can give them the power to say no.
Billy Graham
#30. Do not give them a piece of your mind but a piecepiece of God's LOVE
Ikechukwu Joseph
#31. You want to sub, baby, but you've got no idea what it means. When you give someone the power to do what they want to you, you also give them the responsibility of keeping you safe. Otherwise, you can't ever really give in and let go.
Amelia C. Gormley
#32. We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.
William J. Mitchell
#33. Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#34. The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.
Bob Proctor
#35. India is the world's most youthful nation. A nation with such youth power cannot dream small. We cannot commit this crime. We should dream big, we should enable the youth to dream big and we should give them an opportunity to realize their dreams
Narendra Modi
#36. THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly ...
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#37. In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
Katha Pollitt
#38. Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.
Samuel Johnson
#39. People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
Daphne Zuniga
#40. He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so.
Francis De Sales
#41. Things only have as much power as you give them
Nicky Hope
#42. Once you give them the power to tell you you're great, you've also given them the power to tell you you're unworthy. Once you start caring about people's opinions of you, you give up control.
Ronda Rousey
#44. I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.
Harry Reid
#45. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.
Mitch Albom
#46. I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
Jim Barksdale
#47. if we seek social status, we give other people power over us: We have to do things calculated to make them admire us, and we have to refrain from doing things that will trigger their disfavor.
William B. Irvine
#48. Tell them," God said through Isaiah, "hard times are coming, but don't give up - now or ever. Don't let them underestimate My power to reorder the universe. Tell them to keep trusting Me and living the way I told them to in spite of what's coming.
James MacDonald
#49. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.
Christopher Paolini
#50. God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it.
Gary Haugen
#51. Power is Power," Bryan says."People want anything they think will give them an edge.
Amanda Hudson
#52. You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.
Frederick Lenz
#53. As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you. To
Susan Forward
#54. Take a leap of faith and see that these troubled waters have no power over you unless you give it to them, and even then they lie.
Ted Dekker
#55. As fleeting commitments, diets often fail. Thinking of dietary choices as part of who you are ... can give them real staying power
Nir Eyal
#56. I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
Rachel Maddow
#57. Do not let fear and anger conquer you. You must conquer them. If you don't, you give your enemy all power over you, and you will never overcome him. Anger uncontrolled flames up fast and hot, and even though you direct this fire at your foe, it is you it burns. Hamiel
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#58. It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.
Christopher Poindexter
#59. And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.
Beth Revis
#60. The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them the vote in 1920. Women couldn't even own property in their own names until the last quarter of the 19th century in America.
John Shelby Spong
#61. Are you really going to let a couple of stupid kids keep you from going back to school? I know you've been enjoying it. Don't give them that power over yot. Don't give them the satisfaction.
R.J. Palacio
#62. Magic doesn't mean to earn something or to get something. Magic is the will power. You can grow crops, but you can't create them. Difference is, one is the will power and the other is temptation. Magic selects the eligible but can't give them the proper direction.
Anurag Bhatt
#63. I don't think these men know that it's illegal,"she said. "They're very liberal and they have daughters and I think we should talk to them."The gruff-voiced woman barked back, "Don't be a naive little girl. People who have power don't like to give up that power.
Lynn Povich
#64. That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
Henry Ward Beecher
#65. It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose ... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.
William Mapother
#66. When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.
Theodore Roosevelt
#67. When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.
Leslie Vernick
#68. But life doesn't give us the option to remake our decisions, only the power to reconceive them
Tiffany Baker
#69. What would you give to remember everything? I have this power. I absorb your memories; when you hear me, you relive them. A first dance. A wedding. The song that played when you got the big news. No other talent gives your
Mitch Albom
#70. Most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we feel this attitude needs any sort of explanation.
David Graeber
#71. Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.
E. Lockhart
#72. Because you and I have the power to impute beauty on anything under the sun. Because you become the labels you give yourself. If you declare you're beautiful - not despite your imperfections, but because of them - then you are.
Bo Sanchez
#73. It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#74. Even as he wanted to master her, he hated the idea of her as acquiescent. He needed her to struggle against him, to give as good as she got. He craved power plays between them, mental games. But ultimately he did want to dominate her.
Kresley Cole
#75. Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.
Thomas Sowell
#76. The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
John Adams
#77. Dreamers have a territorial seed in them that give them the power to possess, to dominate and to influence the world.
Euginia Herlihy
#78. As you age, you start to realize that your emotions are in your hands and not someone else's. Once you put them in someone else's hands, that's when you give them the power, and you can't change it. Only they can change it.
Keke Palmer
#79. You acquire more influence with young people when you give up using your power to control them ... and the more you use your power to try to control people the less influence you'll have on their lives.
Thomas Gordon
#80. When you meet someone, never forget to give them two important presents: your love and your smile. It will cost you nothing.
Debasish Mridha
#81. If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.
Richard J. Foster
#82. The new female is not limited in any way. She yearns to give the gifts she was born to give, and she does what is necessary to give them. Where her heart leads, she goes. No one defines her role for her. She is on a spiritual journey. Authentic Power is her destination.
Gary Zukav
#83. Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.
John Stossel
#84. You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.
David Mitchell
#85. Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.
Napoleon Hill
#86. I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
Giacomo Casanova
#87. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.
Orson Scott Card
#88. The settle, followed by 10 for power will give you that grasp on their nuts that you need. Once you've got that, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze and squeeze and don't ever let up! You'll just be breaking 1500 meters down when you hear them yelp. Listen for the yelp, and then bring it into the dock.
Christopher Allsopp
#89. Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
Bill Crawford
#90. If pleasing people is your goal, you will be enslaved to them. People can be harsh taskmasters when you give them this power over you.
Sarah Young
#91. I am self-propelled; fueled from within. I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm not attached to them. I learned a long time ago that if I give them the power to feed me, I also give them the power to starve me.
Steve Maraboli
#92. All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous Huxley
#93. There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power ... on the contrary, they must be given less power.
Benjamin Constant
#94. No one can hurt you except you give them the power to do so and choose to accept it.
Kemi Sogunle
#95. I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.
Michael Eric Dyson
#96. On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. They have to decide whether to keep it, or give it away to where their minority status makes them permanently powerless and vulnerable.
Jim Sillars
#97. Never give people power over you until you know how to get rid of them.
Richard Holloway
#98. Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive undermining sexist messages that encourage them to conform to conventional notions of femininity. To conform they have to give up power.
Bell Hooks
#99. Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.
Steven Lake
#100. After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script.
Donald Miller
