Powerful Quotes

"I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"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

"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it"

Marcel Proust, Author

"The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

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

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"You are the most powerful cultural force in the world"

William J. Clinton, President

"One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"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"

Audre Lorde, Poet

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

Tina Turner, Musician

"The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end"

Henry Villard, Journalist

"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded"

Barack Obama, President

"It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel"

James Allen, Author

"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

"She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy"

Martin Van Buren, President

"Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration"

David Ricardo, Economist

"I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby"

Celine Dion, Musician

"It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world"

Edward Grey, Politician

"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them"

Deborah Cox, Musician

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