Powerful Quotes

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

~ Suze Orman

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

~ Vernon Howard

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

~ Alicia Keys

The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.

~ Roger Federer

Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine.

~ Allyson Felix

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

~ Isabel Allende

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

~ Madonna Ciccone

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

~ F. Sionil José

You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

~ Marcus Buckingham

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

~ Gabrielle Giffords

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

~ David Hume

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

~ Myles Munroe

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

~ Brad Thor

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

~ Michael Franti

Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

~ Ed Sheeran

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

~ Jane Siberry

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

~ Nile Rodgers

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

~ Eric Clapton

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

~ Bryan Ferry

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

~ Percy Ross

I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciousness. When you have a group of people that have the intention and the capacity, talent, and intelligence to actualize those intentions, then you have something really powerful.

~ Jimmy Chin

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

~ Albert Einstein

When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

~ David Bowie

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.

~ Edward Snowden

When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it's easier to make different choices. Instead of viewing the time we spend with friends and family as luxuries, we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our well-being and survival.

~ Dean Ornish

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

Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.

~ Pete Hamill

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

~ Junior Seau

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

~ John Carpenter

Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination.

~ Jerry Greenfield

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

~ Michael Specter

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

~ Naomi Klein

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

~ Ivan Pavlov

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

~ E. O. Wilson

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

~ Raymond Moody

Let's be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

~ Michelle Obama

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

~ Judith Light

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

~ Christie Hefner