Sojourner Truth Quotes

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down.

Leadership and power vacuums will be filled.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

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.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.

I will not give up my office alive.

I believe in power.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others.

The people who own the country ought to govern it.

The people are difficult to govern: It is because those in authority are too fond of action [change].

when greed and fear are linked to power, you have a dangerous mix. We see that in political life. In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back. One of the many things I like and admire in our democracies are the norms that make our leaders hand over power when voters tell them to

I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.

If ever I leave power, it will be only in conditions of beauty, never under pressure.

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

You have to know when to give up control, and if you go to a good restaurant, you have to give it up - it's a trust factor.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

This microphone is the key to the universe. When you have this in your hands, you are the most powerful person in the whole world, let's get!.

If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.