58 Quotes About Powerless

As humans, we feel powerless at times. We feel like our mistakes are larger than us, that we’re not capable of making the right decisions, or that we can’t do anything to change our circumstances. But no matter how strong the feeling of powerlessness, it’s important to remember that you always have power. You can choose to choose your attitude and thoughts, and decide how you want to perceive your life Read more

Instead of allowing the feeling of powerlessness to rule your life, let these amazing quotes give you the strength you need to overcome it until it dissipates.

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Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear. Sierra D. Waters
You only feel powerless because your fear has given your...
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You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back. Kamand Kojouri
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Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that. Kamand Kojouri
Money itself is absolutely powerless to keep you at the...
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Money itself is absolutely powerless to keep you at the height of success Sunday Adelaja
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[We learn] from heartbreak that love is not for idealists, but realists; it should always be passionate, but it is always dangerous. That infatuation is a game of power, but love leaves us powerless--and it is our dignity in its aftermath that defines us. Unknown
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The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them — for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn’t entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between people. . Suzy Kassem
Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what...
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Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. Mike Norton
How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose...
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How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything? Gustave Flaubert
Prayer without an active position is powerless to change anything
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Prayer without an active position is powerless to change anything Sunday Adelaja
Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you...
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Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
Any church that operates in prayerless and powerless Christianity spend...
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Any church that operates in prayerless and powerless Christianity spend their days and years conducting dust to dust rites in the burial grounds. Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
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If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us Sunday Adelaja
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That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love. T.F. Hodge
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The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers. Suzy Kassem
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My Keeper took everything from me: my home, my family, my voice. He made me powerless. But I'm home now. It may be split in two, but I have it back. My family may be broken, but I have it back. I have my voice back. I am not powerless anymore. Clara Kensie
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Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do. Sierra D. Waters
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John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway. Sierra D. Waters
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He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it Sierra D. Waters
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No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them? Sierra D. Waters
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It is not a single crime when a child is photographed while sexually assaulted (raped.) It is a life time crime that should have life time punishments attached to it. If the surviving child is, more often than not, going to suffer for life for the crime(s) committed against them, shouldn't the pedophiles suffer just as long? If it often takes decades for survivors to come to terms with exactly how much damage was caused to them, why are there time limits for prosecution? . Sierra D. Waters
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The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet and neither was the nurse. The nurse tried to push you back in, but I shit on the table and when you came out, you landed in my shit." If there ever was a way to sum things up, the story of my birth was it. Sierra D. Waters
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It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world. We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that c Vera Nazarian
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For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system. Unknown
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Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime? Firoozeh Dumas
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Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortunate beginning. Someone in a position of power over us used and abused us… It seems as if power were something to be wielded, always at someone’s expense, usually our own. Maureen Brady
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The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power? Henrik Ibsen
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Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking. T.F. Hodge
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Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses. A.J. Darkholme
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Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This aspect of dissociation is frequently found in abuse survivors. It is not uncommon for abused children to engage in magical thinking to retain an illusion of control over the situation (e.g., believing that they "cause" the perpetrator to act out). Marlene Steinberg
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Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female sexual victimization. The relationship between father and daughter, adult male and female child, is one of the most unequal relationships imaginable. It is no accident that incest occurs most often precisely in the relationship where the female is most powerless. The actual sexual encounter may be brutal or tender, painful or pleasurable; but it is always, inevitably, destructive to the child. The father, in effect, forces the daughter to pay with her body for affection and care which should be freely given. p4 . Judith Lewis Herman
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You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total darkness on your weakness. Israelmore Ayivor
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That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions about my life, my body, my actions. Taking my own life seemed my last trump card. Natascha Kampusch
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When evil altars are invoked, great destinies are altered Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
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It was all real and blazing with detail. But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper. Laura Whitcomb
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If freedom rings, then bondage bombs. Anthony Liccione
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Emptiness ate away at his inside, quickly replaced by a sadness that hurt his heart. Unknown
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Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because we feel powerless, invisible, unheard. We crave celebrity, but that’s not easy to come by, so we settle for notoriety. Envy and bitterness drive a new breed of lawbreakers, replacing the old motives of poverty and the need for escape. But how do you solve crimes which no longer have traditional motives? . Christopher Fowler
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Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all – humility cares. Bryant McGill
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Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless. Shahla Khan
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I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key. Haruki Murakami
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In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator. Judith Lewis Herman
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When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse... We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it, ' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness… In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth. Maureen Brady
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With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it; a nature like Claggart’s, surcharged with energy as such natures almost invariably are, what recourse is left to it but to recoil upon itself and, like the scorpion for which the Creator alone is responsible, act out to the end the part allotted it. Herman Melville
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Its more a trance, jonah said. the whole world is pressing in on me, like a weight on my chest, slowly pushing me down ans down. and there's nothing between me and this weight but my flimsy skin. Its not enough. It won't protect me. It doesn't keep anything out. The outside will keep pressing until my ribs are crushed. Natalie Standiford
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Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" ). Erik Pevernagie
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If a person is outside the sin zone, the devil is powerless against him. Sunday Adelaja
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I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right. Jorge Ramos
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Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force is that of nature, we speak of disasters. When the force is that of other human beings, we speak of atrocities. Traumatic events overwhelm the ordinary systems of care that give people a sense of control, connection, and meaning.… Traumatic events are extraordinary, not because they occur rarely, but rather because they overwhelm the ordinary human adaptations to life.… They confront human beings with the extremities of helplessness and terror, and evoke the responses of catastrophe. Judith Lewis Herman
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With him, I've become like putty- rendered powerless by his magnificence- and his to mold into whatever he desires. Giorge Leedy
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But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""' They?' Who are 'they?'""I don't know. Just people."" That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe? John Connolly
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You are as ordinary as spring, ' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I touch you, I burn, ' he said, making her heart stop and a flare of wild panic light inside her. He was too close; he was getting to her. Charlotte Lamb
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It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. Flora Rheta Schreiber
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The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights Sunday Adelaja
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. Thomas Huxley
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. Don DeLillo
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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. Lysander Spooner