Most Powerful Quotes - Page 15

• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Powerful, Life Lesson, Self

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• In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

  Pliny the Elder

  Powerful, Military, Often Is

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• Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Truth, Powerful, Moving

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• The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.

  Catharine Beecher

  Family, Powerful, Divorce

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1871). “Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession”, p.9

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• In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

  Joseph Hertz

  Powerful, Motherhood, Longing

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1941). “Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot”

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• My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Friends, Powerful, Prayer

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• He is most powerful who governs himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Powerful

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• The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.

  Anthony Brandt

  Powerful, Years, Ties

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• Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Aum is the most powerful of all mantras. It is good to chant Aum seven or more times before and after each meditation. Chanting "Aum" puts you in harmony with the vibration of Eternity. "Aum" opens the gateway to the infinite highway of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Light

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• You have control over three things - what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.

  Sonia Friedman

  Powerful, Thinking, Three

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• Brothers and sisters, I believe that there are few, even temple workers, who comprehend the full meaning and power of the temple endowment.  Seen for what it is, it is the step-by-step ascent into the Eternal Presence.  If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives.

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Brother, Motivation

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• The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.

  Bill Drayton

  Powerful, Hands, Ideas

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• Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.

  Martha Beck

  Powerful, Heart, Stories

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• Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

  Francis Bacon

  Powerful, Passion, Wine

  "Temperance Essays And Selections From Different Authors". Book edited by Edward C. Delavan, 1865.

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• One of the most powerful energies you can ever experience is gratitude.

  Joe Vitale

  Gratitude, Powerful, Energy

  Joe Vitale (2005). “The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out”, p.133, John Wiley & Sons

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• One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

  Robert Morgan

  Powerful, Talking, Use

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• One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

  Robert Morgan

  Powerful, Choices, Unexpected

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• Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

  George Leonard

  Inspirational, Powerful, Humanity

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.254, North Atlantic Books

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• People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Powerful, People

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the general public. They're the only people who have power now.

  Simon Cowell

  Powerful, Reality, Numbers

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been documentaries. Of course, there are some narrative films that I could never forget, but there are more documentaries that have had that impact on me.

  Richard Ray Perez

  Powerful, Impact, Narrative

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think it was wonderful when Princess Di died so that everyone could cry in unison. I thought that the crying together was the most powerful gift that she gave in her death.

  Sark

  Powerful, Princess, Thinking

  Source: www.shift-it-coach.com

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• The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Powerful, Challenges, Looks

  Source: www.mbacrystalball.com

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