Powerful Quotes: Inspiring Words for Unleashing Your Inner Strength

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are"

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship"

John Grierson, Director

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it"

Lee Tergesen, Actor

"At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be"

Alice Walker, Author

"The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son"

Judy Collins, Musician

"And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim"

Amos Oz, Writer

"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family"

Danny Glover, Actor

"Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals"

Martha Beck, Author

"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us"

Sophocles, Author

"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable"

Victor Hugo, Author

"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The more you are talked about the less powerful you are"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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