Quotes About Not Giving Away Your Power

#1. None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

Harold S. Kushner

#2. Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

Lauren Mackler

#3. When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.

Phillip C. McGraw

#4. I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

Ken Blanchard

#5. As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away ... I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.

Tom Shadyac

#6. When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.

Bob Proctor

#7. Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

Barack Obama

#8. I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.

Mariel Hemingway

#9. A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.

Isabel Toledo

#10. Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.

Thomas Chalmers

#11. On the Cross Christ wins through losing, triumphs through defeat, achieves power through weakness and service, comes to wealth via giving all away. Jesus Christ turns the values of the world upside down.

Timothy Keller

#12. Momma always said that a true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise, she's giving away her power and her crown. My

Carolyn Brown

#13. If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

Bell Hooks

#14. You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.

Alan Cohen

#15. It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.

David Weinberger

#16. You lose your power not by giving it away, but by not giving it away.

Debasish Mridha

#17. 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

#18. A true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise she's giving away her power and her crown.

Carolyn Brown

#19. Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free. A lie, no matter how "little," gives the powers of darkness an opening for attack, but the truth chases them far away.

Johan Oscar Smith

#20. The real power of money is the power to give it away.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#21. Assuming is a form of giving away your power to another regarding an outcome that concerns you.

Molly Friedenfeld

#22. 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

#23. It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.

Benjamin Zander

#24. A true leader doesn't lead to gain power. They lead to empower and give power away.

Jon Gordon

#25. True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.

Marlene Caroselli

#26. What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Doris Lessing

#27. Or perhaps Zeus was just messing with me again - giving me a taste of my old power before yanking it away once more. Remember this, kid? WELL YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!

Rick Riordan

#28. An expectation is defined as "an eager anticipation for something to happen." A goal is defined as "a purpose or objective." When we are clinging to expectations, we are waiting for something to happen and giving our power away.

Christine Hassler

#29. Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#30. The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

Marketa Irglova

#31. When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

Maggie Stiefvater

#32. Don't give your power away to anybody. If you find something to do that you truly love, you'll be successful.

Rachel Roy

#33. I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

Anais Nin

#34. I'm willing to get you've given a good bit of your power away today to something you believe is outside of your control.

Catherine Garrett