Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.

There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

It's frustrating to see part of your body not responding - even more so given the way I am and the way I like to train and always give 100 per cent. You experience sadness, anger, and powerlessness... you really want to do something, but you can't. In the end, however, you have to be honest with yourself and those around you.

There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it's the whole picture that counts.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Human conditions are merely a part of the illusory, dreamlike nature of our body/mind/personality's functioning. Meditation renders those conditions powerless. If only for a moment. If those moments come more and more frequently, the conditions become less and less powerful.

It's not such a bad thing, to feel powerless sometimes. It teaches us that some situations are inevitable and that we should spend what little time we have in the company of the people that matter most.

You are unique in so many ways. You have the power within you to achieve anything in life. Regardless of the judgment from others, You are NOT Powerless. You have Greatness in you. No one on this earth can't take that away from you or destroy it. So believe in yourself and fuel your power with acceptance of who you are. Be Courageous, Face your Fears, and Live Your Greatness.