Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“let for only a moment, relinquishing all control, overcoming my fear.” — Chrissy Peebles Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“There is something at stake any time we cross from one circle to another, a simultaneous relinquishing and hardening of the self.” — John Leland Copy Share Image
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
“Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.” — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing.… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way.… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people;… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Our strength, in other words, has rested in our determination to reject simplistic absolutes and to redefine and revitalize a productive middle… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Any more bitching from the geriatric crew? What a bunch of old women. Should I hire another crewmate to change your bed… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS… — Dogen Copy Share Image
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesnt mean relinquishing ones rights. It means engaging with ones counterparts, on the basis of equal footing… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
“The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system. Enlightenment involves relinquishing the thought system based… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Spade-“If you’d refrain from slamming my face any more into this dirty rock floor, I’ll do whatever you like,” was his even… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set.… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
