Powerful Quotes

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

There is no more powerful weapon for change than honesty.

I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not.

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.

Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Obstacles aren't there to stop you. They are put there to show you how powerful you can feel when you run right over them.

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

When leaders are willing to talk through their own decision-making process, making visible that values are an important consideration, this sends a powerful signal to employees.

There is nothing more powerful than kindness.

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.

Sharing experience and building public support for the full range of rights is more powerful than legal cases.

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.

A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

Her kung fu is that powerful.

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.

If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!

We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader's mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds!

Hard winds and strong ideas have powerful muscles; they can knock you down easily!

Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

I much prefer to watch actors and writers create "humanizing" moments for characters. In a drama, "humanizing" is far more impactful and powerful than "redeeming."

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This is a simple but powerful idea.