Powerful Quotes

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Persistence, Mountain

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• Once you believe in who you are and who you were born to be, it can be very powerful.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Believe, Born, Who You Are

  "Mythical Proportions: An Exclusive Interview With Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson". Interview with Matt Tuthill, www.muscleandfitness.com.

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• Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more complete and more perfect than they are.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Humble, Perfect

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• If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• Former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is promoting her new book and she's going to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Sarah and Oprah. On the one hand, a very powerful woman qualified to be President of the United States, and on the other hand, you have Sarah ... But if you think about it, Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey have a lot in common. They both helped get Obama elected.

  David Letterman

  Book, Thinking, Hands

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• It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live... and it's phenomenally powerful.

  Bob Proctor

  Determination, Mind, Matter

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 18, 2017

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• Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile . . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.

  James Turrell

  Light, Space, Connections

  James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr

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• All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but
  the people who are really powerful.

  Mao Zedong

  Reality, Views, Long

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.43, Lulu.com

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• My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Achievement, Signatures, Matter

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• If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.

  Norman Mailer

  Believe, Years, Omnipotence

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  Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

  David Gelernter

  Real, Learning, Giving

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• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  Yehuda Berg

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Hurt

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 15, 2010

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• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

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• The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Sep 15, 2011

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• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “Neale Donald Walsh's Little Book of Life: A User's Manual”, p.95, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.

  J. P. Blake

  Positive Thinking, World, Remember

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• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2016

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• Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.298, Mango Media Inc.

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• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Motivational, Patience

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Positivity, Sunshine, Views

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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  We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 15, 2013

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