Powerful Quotes

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.

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.

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

Clarity breeds mastery.

Fear only become powerful when you give it your power.

We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

Potential unexpressed turns to pain.

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Expectation is a powerful attractive force.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?

Women don't realize how powerful they are

No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.

There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

I think God is perfect, all-powerful and has an unstoppable plan for everyone, including those who love him and those who don't.

Legendary service is one of the criteria that sets one company apart from its competitors. It's the mark of a truly authentic company - you just can't fake caring!

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

Old age is a powerful disguise.