Powerful Quotes: Inspiring Words for Unleashing Your Inner Strength (Pag...

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

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"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

"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"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

"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"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

"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"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"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"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit"

Ovid, Poet

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish"

Ovid, Poet

"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand"

John Ruskin, Writer

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War"

George Washington, President

"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different"

Tina Turner, Musician

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes"

Andrew Jackson, President

"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it"

Ken Kesey, Author

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

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

David Hume, Philosopher

"There is little more powerful than when truth joins action"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits"

Sallust, Historian

"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"Any powerful technology can be abused"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

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