Quotes about powerful
Johnnie Dent Jr. -
The thing about being powerful is that it may be a limited edition... as the source of the power goes you go but becoming empowered will last a lifetime.
Farshad Asl -
Your words are very powerful and what you say matters keep them positive and powerful.
TemitOpe Ibrahim -
Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.
Scilla Elworthy -
Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.
John Hurt -
I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.
Pete Hamill -
The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.
Justin Trudeau -
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
Benjamin Disraeli -
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Kevin Spacey -
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.
Stephen Hawking -
The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
Jill Scott -
To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.
Henry Cloud -
The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
Benjamin Netanyahu -
The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.
Joyce Carol Oates -
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.
Marvin Sapp -
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.
Robert Morgan -
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
Rita Dove -
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Kage Baker -
Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
Joyce Meyer -
Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.
Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Stop trying to 'fix' yourself you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.
Louise J. Kaplan -
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Ada Lovelace -
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
Hugh Jackman -
Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.
Michael Bergin -
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
Nelson Mandela -
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
William Hague -
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
Maya Angelou -
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Joshua Micah Marshall -
We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.
Ken Cuccinelli -
When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.
David Grann -
One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.
Simon Schama -
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
Ma Jun -
It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.
Jeremy Grantham -
I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.
Tim Holden -
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Ivan Turgenev -
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!
Noam Chomsky -
It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
Nirmalya Kumar -
Chinese brands will face many obstacles when marketing to Western consumers. Beyond the associations with poor quality and unsound environmental practices, they generally do not have the marketing capabilities or budgets to build powerful global brands.
Rick Riordan - The Battle of the Labyrinth
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
Rick Yancey - The 5th Wave
But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.
Steve Maraboli -
Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose.
Melissa de la Cruz - The Isle of the Lost
It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful.
Amy Leigh Mercree - & Soul Mates
I am powerful in my love for myself. The truth of my being is I love myself exactly as I am. I honor my empowered heart.
Sanober Khan -
Wordsare powerfulforces of nature.they are destruction.they are nourishment. they are flesh. they are water.they are flowers and bone.they burn. they cleansethey erase. they etch. they can eitherleave youfeelinghomelessor brimmingwith home.
Veronica Roth - Allegiant
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
Scott Stabile -
We are powerful beyond measure,and we must stand powerfully in the face of injustice and hate.United.
Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others.
Michael Bassey Johnson - Master of Maxims
Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.
S.K Michels -
The Light shone shone from her skin,casting about the room in dancing beams that warmed all those that gazed upon her. A magnificent creature,so powerful,so distant,so wonderous and strange and out of reach. It almost seemed she did not belong to this world,she should walk instead through palaces in the heavens,or labyrinths of deep seas. Forests where trees stretched out of sight,with canopies that spread for miles;or mountains that glittered white and violet.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.
Nikki Rowe -
Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have. - CRPS AWARENESS -
Dan C. Quayle -
The future will be better tomorrow.
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. "You shall go now," he said fiercely, pointing down at Mr. Malfoy. "You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now.
Rose Wynters - My Wolf Protector
No,” he replied, firmly, smoothing her hair back from the side of her face. “I'll never leave youalone again. You've spent too many years always having to be the strong one, never having anyone torely upon. It stops now, Taylor. What I heard changes nothing when it comes to how I feel about you. Irespect you in a way I've never respected anyone before. Share this burden with me. You've been stronglong enough. Let me shoulder it from here on out. I promise you, I won't fail you.
Saim .A. Cheeda -
Imagination is a storm of emotions that has the power to sweep citadels into the wind.
Shahzad Ashraf -
No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree. It will do you no best, until a shingle you free.
Cristiane Serruya - Trust: Betrayed
Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. Just because it is peaceful, it doesn’t mean it is still and void, as a few may think. It is insightful, powerful and full of meaning. It is when one can’t lie to oneself. You have to learn to listen to what she is not saying. Listen to her silence. And listen to yours, too.
Stormie Omartian -
It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.
Stormie Omartian -
If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?
Stormie Omartian -
In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you’re not afraid of the dark.
Stormie Omartian -
God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.
Stormie Omartian -
Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.
Stormie Omartian -
The phrase “timing is everything” is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything.
Stormie Omartian -
Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.
Stormie Omartian -
We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.
Anthony Liccione -
A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.
Stormie Omartian -
Praying is not telling God what to do. It’s trusting that God knows what to do.
Stormie Omartian -
When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.
Stormie Omartian -
The quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life. And this is something worth praying about.
Stormie Omartian -
People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting.
Stormie Omartian -
The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees.
Stormie Omartian -
The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees.
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.
Anthony Liccione -
If freedom rings, then bondage bombs.
Marianne Williamson -
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
Victoria Erickson -
Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so must sit with the shifts. We are complicated creatures, and ultimately, the balance comes from this understanding. Be water. Flowin
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Powerful words always travel the whole world!
Gift Gugu Mona -
Words are powerful, so use every word wisely to create a better world.
Paul Harvey -
If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.” “Do as yo
Akiroq Brost -
You are powerful, you are unique, you are a gift to yourself and others.
G. Willow Wilson - Vol. 6: Civil War II
It's not the size of the girl in the fight that counts... it's the size of the fight in the girl! -MISS MARVEL
Victoria Aveyard - Red Queen
Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.
Deb Caletti - The Secret Life of Prince Charming
And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get?At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand
Sunday Adelaja -
You will be influential and powerful in the field of your gift and talent
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.
Shannon L. Alder -
When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.
Audre Lorde -
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Sunday Adelaja -
Children get used to the thought of their fate depends on powerful parents deciding everything in their life
Cassandra Clare - Clockwork Angel
One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' Will finished. 'Well, there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the course. 'Of course, why one would want to be and fire flock of sheep is another matter
Sunday Adelaja -
You can become great through the power of time
Clara Kensie - Aftermath
My Keeper took everything from me: my home, my family, my voice. He made me powerless. But I'm home now. It may be split in two, but I have it back. My family may be broken, but I have it back. I have my voice back. I am not powerless anymore.
T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking.
Donald L. Hicks - Look into the stillness
Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.
Robin Hobb - City of Dragons
Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.
Dan Groat - Monarchs and Mendicants
Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.
Thomm Quackenbush - 2nd Edition: A Reference Handbook
I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They don’t want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they do want to hurt. They want to scare me because fear is the only way they have learned to feel powerful.