Most Powerful Quotes - Page 14

• Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.

  David Spangler

  Spiritual, Powerful, Practice

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• Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the love of God.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Powerful, Sin

  Billy Graham (2014). “Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.

  Wendy Alexander

  Sorry, Powerful, Four

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• Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Moving, Persistence

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• In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Country, Religious

  "The peculiar history of the Pledge of Allegiance" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. December 23, 2013.

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• In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Spiritual, Powerful

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.563, Best Books on

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• I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Powerful, Black, Hollywood

  "Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler and Director McG Talk THIS MEANS WAR". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Art, Powerful

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• Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Powerful, Passion, Sloth

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• The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Kings, Powerful, Hero

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Powerful, Outcomes

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• For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Powerful

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Strong, Powerful, War

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• In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Powerful, Practice, Race

  Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill (1984). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: September 1920-August 1921”, p.402, Univ of California Press

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• Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

  Tian Dayton

  Powerful, Talking, Silence

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• I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Powerful, Believe, Museums

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

  Geoffrey West

  Powerful, Data, Physics

  "The City in Numbers: an Equation That Explains Urban Life". wired.co.uk, March 29, 2011.

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• The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.

  Newt Gingrich

  Powerful, Our Society, Information

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• The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

  Max Lucado

  Powerful, Simple, Life Is

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Egypt, Color

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• God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Prayer, Powerful

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• ...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.

  Ani DiFranco

  Powerful, Hatred, Important

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• Ten decimal places of π are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the visible universe to a quantity imperceptible to the most powerful microscope.

  Simon Newcomb

  Powerful, Giving, Earth

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• The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

  Joseph Stalin

  Powerful, Party, Politics

  Joseph Stalin (1975). “Works”

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• He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Powerful, Imagination, Affection

  lord Francis Jeffrey (1879). “Essay on beauty, by Francis, lord Jeffrey; and Essays on the nature and principles of taste, by A. Alison. Repr. of the 5th ed”

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