Top 100 Power Over You Quotes
#1. Forgiveness is so powerful. You give a person so much power over you when you are unable to let go and simply forgive.
B.M. Hardin
#2. Don't let anyone set restrictions on your life ... You chart the course of your own future, not anyone else. Don't let people have such a power over you. Because if you're always racing against their standards, then what's the point of reaching a useless finish line?
Kale Lawrence
#3. Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
Steven Pressfield
#4. You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#5. The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
Ben Folds
#6. Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.
Dan Millman
#7. You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.
Patricia Briggs
#8. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
Og Mandino
#9. If you would accept that, you create your sins.
Then perhaps, you will accept that Satan has no power over you.
Zarina Bibi
#10. Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.
Charles Tart
#11. 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
#12. The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.
William Safire
#13. A nigger that ain't afraid to die is the worse kind of nigger for the white man. He can't hold that power over you. That's what I learned when I killed that cat. I got the power of death too.
August Wilson
#14. Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.
Dorothy Koomson
#15. Ever since I drank your blood, my head has been crazy ... I won't lie. The connection gives me a lot of power over you. I could read your thoughts and speak to you wherever I am, even several miles away.
Kenya Wright
#16. When you face your fears, they no longer have power over you.
Ken Petti
#17. That's what trust is, Sazed thought. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.
Brandon Sanderson
#18. A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.
John Le Carre
#19. Make sure you marry a plain man, Tessa. They won't stray, and they'll never have power over you.
Richelle Mead
#20. The past only has power over you when it's forgotten ... ignored or repressed.
Mark Kendrick
#21. You view love and especially women ... as something hostile, something against which you defend yourself, although in vain, something whose power over you, however, you feel as a sweet torment, a prickling cruelty: this is truly a modern attitude.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#22. When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
Ryan Holiday
#23. [T]he only thing that has power over you is what you can't say, even to yourself.
Naomi Jackson
#24. It is a very hard thing to understand, but you will come to learn in time that nothing in the universe has power over you until you allow it to exercise such a power.
Swami Vivekananda
#25. If you didn't believe in the possibility, you wouldn't have challenged these creatures. And the minute you start to believe in something, it begins to have power over you.
Simon Holt
#26. The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.
Gary Zukav
#27. If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.
Frederick Lenz
#28. If you have no fear, no one has power over you.
John Maeda
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. People knowing your private business gave them power over you -Anya
Gabrielle Zevin
#32. Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.
Will Smith
#33. I believed that letting someone in, caring about them ... it gives them power over you, whether they plan it that way or not. It gives them the power to leave, to hurt you. But living, really living, is messy and sometimes ugly and it hurts.
Eve Silver
#34. Love yourself. Don't worry about what others say, think, or feel about you. They didn't create you, do not own you, and therefore hold no power over you. Do not allow your ego to replace your self-worth.
Dina Redmon
#35. Asking for help with shame says:
You have the power over me.
Asking with condescension says:
I have the power over you.
But asking for help with gratitude says:
We have the power to help each other.
Amanda Palmer
#36. Giving your heart to someone was like giving them unimaginable power over you.
Lindy Zart
#37. Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.
Marcus Aurelius
#38. Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?" she asked, tears shining in her eyes.
"Power over you, little one," he said, smiling. "What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
Conn Iggulden
#39. Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.
Peter McWilliams
#40. Rights are more reliable than the kindness of someone who has absolute power over you.
Rebecca Solnit
#41. Defiance means you got somebody with power over you.
Pearl Cleage
#42. People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others.
Bryant McGill
#44. Be calm, cool, and collected. Don't let that
handsome bastard have power over you.
M.M. Kin
#45. 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
#46. A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have any intrinsic power, but because your fear immobilizes you and makes you do a bad job.
Frederick Lenz
#47. When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level.
Frederick Lenz
#48. Self-pity leads to continuing to love the sin so it still has power over you, but hating yourself. Real repentance is when you say, "What has this sin done to God? What has it cost God? What does God feel about it?
Matt Papa
#49. I guarantee there is nothing more depressing than knowing morons have complete power over you.
Tim Tharp
#50. 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
#51. 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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#52. The point is to face the fears that are going to be thrown at you, face them, and defeat them because the greatest fears are the ones your mind creates. Those are the only fears that can truly have power over you. Don't let them.
Quinn Loftis
#53. still got power over you, even in death, if he can agitate you this much
Carolyn Brown
#54. It's coming to seem the only way to avoid hurting other people, which in his experience is what gives them power over you.
Russell Banks
#56. I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.
Shirley Hazzard
#57. If you continue to blame other people for "making" you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.
Henry Cloud
#58. Remember the Law of Power: You only have the power to change yourself. You can't change another person. You must see yourself as the problem, not the other person. To see another person as the problem to be fixed is to give that person power over you and your well-being.
Henry Cloud
#59. What you say can haunt you; what you do not has no power over you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
Joan Kirner
#61. If you had a thought once, it has no power over you. Repeat it again and again, especially with emotional intensity, feeling it, and over time, you're creating the grooves, the mental river. Then it controls you.
Kamal Ravikant
#62. ... everyone regrets something, but you can't change the past. You've got to let go and make new memories until the old ones fade enough that they don't hold any power over you.
Olivia Arran
#63. 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
#64. Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. Letting other people have this much power over you is dangerous.
Gwenda Bond
#66. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This
Eckhart Tolle
#67. The devil is alive and kicking. But if you are in Christ and follow the rules of daily Bible study, prayer, and witnessing, he has no power over you.
Billy Graham
#68. Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.
Julie Murphy
#69. Negatives only have power over you when you react to them
John Kehoe
#70. It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.
Leon Brown
#71. A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
Joyce Meyer
#72. 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
#73. Those parts of yourself that you desperately want to hide and destroy will gain power over you. The best thing to do is face and own them, because they are forever a part of you.
Janet Mock
#74. Death is the worst this world can throw at you, Darren
if you accept it, it has no power over you.
Darren Shan
#75. Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order ... perfection, prosperity and peace.
Marianne Williamson
#76. Treat your inferiors in the way in which you would like to be treated by your own superiors. And whenever it strikes you how much power you have over your slave, let it also strike you that your own master has just as much power over you.
Seneca.
#77. When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward positive results. Pat yourself on the back. Truly enjoy the fact that you're making positive progress, and the negative temptations will have no power over you.
Ralph Marston
#78. Never give people power over you until you know how to get rid of them.
Richard Holloway
#79. When you're scared of something, you need to face it, even experience it, regularly. Then it loses all its power over you.
Roxanne St. Claire
#80. By the time you've run your mind through it a hundred times, relentlessly worked out every tic of terror, it's lost its power over you ... [Soon it's] a story on a page or, more precisely, everybody's story on a page.
John Gardner
#81. When you let another steal your joy you give them power over you. Don't let anyone steal your smile
Tammy Johnson
#82. If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories ... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you.
Natalie Lloyd
#83. Loving someone gave them power over you, and she wasn't ready to do that just yet.
Jaci Burton
#84. Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.
Andrew Klavan
#85. Maybe these cards aren't such a great idea. Can you imagine if everyone had the power to mess with everyone else's lives? Chaos.'
But of course, this IS the problem. We already have that power over each other.
Nicola Yoon
#86. Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.
Chad Michael Murray
#87. Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
Gilles Deleuze
#88. The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.
George Lucas
#89. Do you know how much power I have over you? Yes, you, the one just sitting there hitting the f5 button day in and day out!
Andrew Hussie
#90. You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.
James Hunter
#91. I am obsessed with you, with possessing you and you fucking love it, it gets you off knowing that you have that over me, you have all the power.
Kitty Berry
#92. He took her hand. If it were in my power, I would take you to that place from your movie, over the rainbow where dreams come true. But all I can offer is myself, and I'm not going anywhere.
Lisa Kessler
#93. Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.
Bentley Little
#94. No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Ezra Taft Benson
#95. Fear is a prison. A feeling of crippling power that spreads darkness within. It blinds. It questions. It takes over every decision we make, coloring it with doubt. Fear, for most of us, rules our lives, and it's only when you conquer it that you can truly live your life to the fullest.
Mia Asher
#96. If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
Earl Nightingale
#97. Seeing what scares you for what it is does not lessen the terror. It still has the power to break your heart, over and over again.
Teri Terry
#98. When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
Andrea Mitchell
#99. If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
Victoria Osteen
#100. When you're with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!
Giancarlo Esposito
