Top 100 Have No Power Quotes
#2. But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.
Howard Zinn
#3. Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us."
That was all.
And that was everything.
Jack Canfield
#4. If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#5. Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter.
Joanne Harris
#6. What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.
Alexis Ohanian
#8. Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me.
Daria Snadowsky
#9. Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.
Martin Luther
#10. Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white ... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
Dav Pilkey
#11. When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others.
Bryant McGill
#12. All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them.
Oswald Chambers
#13. Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great.
You have no power over me
A.C.H. Smith
#14. Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it.
Debasish Mridha
#15. A good question to ask yourself before doing anything you think you fear is, "If I do this, am I going to die?" If the answer is no, then your fear is made up, grossly overdramatic, and it should have no power over you.
Darren Hardy
#17. If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings as eagles" to the "heavenly places" in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#18. True leaders serve the people. They have no power but what we lend, and what I give in good faith can be taken away." "The wealthy own my world." "Then it is broken.
Penelope Fletcher
#19. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!
Jim Henson
#20. I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.
Richard E. Grant
#21. On a day when secrets shall be out
The man shall have no power nor any helper.
Various
#22. To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
#23. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.
Anais Nin
#25. It's not words that fail, it's the people who wield them. We have no power over life and death, we are subject to pain and disease and misery, but we command words. When you think about it, words are all we really have.
Jessica Zafra
#26. In other restless positions you have no power to accept your difficulties, but in the zazen posture which you have acquired by long, hard practice, your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are, whether they are agreeable or disagreeable.
Shunryu Suzuki
#27. You know I have no power over the balance of the Everneath." He glanced at Jack. "Sorry,bro.Even with your biceps, we can't fight the force of nature.
Brodi Ashton
#28. Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.
Marion Brady
#29. Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#30. Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.
Victor Hugo
#31. The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda
#32. It's absolutely imperative that you speak forth the Word concerning you, because until you do, it will have no power and it won't work!
Chris Oyakhilome
#33. After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America. -Elizabeth Bisland
Matthew Goodman
#34. Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.
Laozi
#35. I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart
Che Acebido
#36. You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,
And I shall have no power to follow you.
William Shakespeare
#37. Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
#38. My self-wroth is not linked to your cruel words and actions.
My self-esteem is not affected by your deliberate attempts to destroy my character.
You have no power over me.
You will not silence me.
Marina Cohen
#40. I'm very used to hurricanes. I'm from Puerto Rico and we have 3 or 4 a year. When you have no power, no light, no email, no place to go, you realize who your loved ones are and where you are in your life at that moment.
Luis D. Ortiz
#41. "But you believe us."
"Yes, I do," said Dumbledore quietly. "But I have no power to make other men see the truth..."
J.K. Rowling
#42. We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.
Tim DeChristopher
#44. Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march? It
Elizabeth Gaskell
#45. You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly ... But - you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar ... Ask yourselves, all of you ... What power would hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?
Neil Gaiman
#46. I am empowered but have no power to compel anyone to do anything
Kazeem Olalekan
#47. All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
#48. The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
Franz Liszt
#49. Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ...
Hannah Arendt
#50. Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#51. There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
Frances McDormand
#52. You could think that you had won. But I woke up, I came back to myself. You won nothing. I transcended you years ago, I left you in the past, I chained you up in my dreams. You may leave me shaken at times, but never again will you leave me broken. You have no power over me.
Tamara Thiel
#53. Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.
Pauline Kael
#54. Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand ... Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.
Marcus Aurelius
#55. I know that within you there is an energy of forgiveness that forgives me and sets me free. My words and actions have no power over you. You are free and I am free. All is well between our spirits. Peace is the order of the day.
Michael Bernard Beckwith
#56. Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#57. If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
Mason Cooley
#58. I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own.
Jodi Benson
#59. If you can't save yourself from attack by being powerful - and I, palpably, have no power. My hands are empty - then perhaps you can save yourself from attack by being ruined, instead. Blow yourself up before the enemy gets to you.
Caitlin Moran
#60. Words have no power when someone isn't listening to you anymore
Marc MacYoung
#61. Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.
Marcus Aurelius
#62. You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.
David Lloyd-Jones
#63. Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Maria Edgeworth
#64. Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.
Rebecca Solnit
#65. Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
Adyashanti
#66. While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one's self a victim of circumstance. Victims of circumstance believe they have no power over their lives, since they are merely the play-things of fate. Since they believe this, it is therefore so.
Stephen Richards
#67. Salvation isn't about sets of words. It's an attitude of the heart. The words have no power in and of themselves; it's not a formula we have to perfect in order to be accepted.
Angie Smith
#69. 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
#70. There is no bounty to be showed to such
As have real goodness: Bounty is
A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act
Can take effect on them that have no power
Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
Ben Jonson
#71. A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.
John Bartholomew Gough
#73. I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.
Peter S. Beagle
#74. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
Samuel Johnson
#75. You were born with love and hope. Why do you feel that you have no power to win in life?
Debasish Mridha
#76. We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
John Owen
#77. Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.
John Marshall
#78. 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
#79. In my own country I am in a far off land.
I am strong but have no power.
I win all yet remain a loser.
At break of day I say goodnight.
When I lie down I have great fear of falling.
Francois Villon
#80. Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
Andre Gide
#81. You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens
#82. Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction
they see their objects always near, never in the horizon.
William Hazlitt
#83. The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.
Jon Jones
#84. Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
John Henry Newman
#85. They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it. Then
Octavia E. Butler
#86. Painful things do not come to us from outside, but arise from within our own mind. Circumstances or other people have no power to make us feel bad; the most they can do is trigger the potentials for painful feelings that already exist within our own mind.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#87. I know that you are young. I know that you have no power with which to resist the Controllers. But I may be able to give you some small powers that may help
Anonymous
#88. It is a common condition of being poor ... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.
Rick Bragg
#89. Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.
Joyce Meyer
#90. My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
Chuck Palahniuk
#91. The HR department is like the soldiers in the movie 300, holding the line. They have no power to say 'yes' but enormous power to say 'no.' Their job is to prevent you from moving forward. Find a way to vault past them by getting introductions to people who can say 'yes.
Reid Hoffman
#92. Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
Wendell Berry
#93. Vergere taught me to embrace my pain by surrendering to it. I made that pain a part of me--something I would never fight or deny. You have to do the same thing with your fear, Uncle Luke. Then it will have no power over you." - Jacen
Troy Denning
#94. Once, I believed that space could
have no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God's
handwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.
Arthur C. Clarke
#95. I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.
Jeanette Winterson
#96. Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change.
John Patrick Hickey
#97. Prophet of evil I ever am to myself: forced for ever into sorrowful auguries that I have no power to hide from my own heart, no, not through one night's solitary dreams.
Thomas De Quincey
#98. You truly help others working on yourself. Remember that the only power you have is over your own choices. You simply have no power to choose for others unless they allow you to.
Raphael Zernoff
#99. Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French
#100. Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ's sake. Amen.
Elisabeth Elliot
