Powerful Quotes

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

Giving is the highest expression of our power.

People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

Expectation is a powerful attractive force.

I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.

I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.

Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.

The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

Potential unexpressed turns to pain.

Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.

New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.

We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.

River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.

In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

You don't ask, you don't get.

...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.