Powerful Quotes - Page 23

• It's all about enjoying the powerful NOW. I really love what I do.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Enjoy

  4 Copy quote

• I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and what that means about living in harmony, in tandem with the natural world. We have much to learn from them, and they will survive us, I feel certain about that.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mean, Thinking, American West

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.

  Alex Gibney

  Motivation, Balls, Way

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go to local government and say man, this is what's happening, and it's going to be you.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Men, Disease, Congress

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

  Paul Stookey

  Heart, Medicine, Folks

  Source: www.pbs.org

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music.

  Serj Tankian

  Artist, Thinking, Inspire

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us.... We are all proud that through God's powerful aid we have become once more true Germans.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Play, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

  Henry Miller

  Ideas, Vision, Sometimes

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

  Adam Smith

  Mean, Causes, Moral

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.58, Courier Corporation

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.

  Thomas Hardy

  Spring, Moving, Garden

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.119, e-artnow

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

  Martha Beck

  Lost Love, Healing, Creating

  4 Copy quote

• It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

  Sydney Smith

  Wise, Strong, Book

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.102

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Teacher, Army, Men

  6 Copy quote

• When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Women, Mean, Rocks

  4 Copy quote

• True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

  Voltaire

  Greatness, Understanding, Enlightenment

  29 Copy quote

• Simple molecules combine to make powerful chemicals. Simple cells combine to make powerful life-forms. Simple electronics combine to make powerful computers. Logically, all things are created by a combination of simpler, less capable components. Therefore, a supreme being must be in our future, not our origin. What if "God" is the consciousness that will be created when enough of us are connected by the Internet?!!

  Scott Adams

  God, Future, Science

  4 Copy quote

• In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Ideas, Issues

  5 Copy quote

• The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

  Adam Smith

  Law, Effort, Liberty

  12 Copy quote

• "Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind".

  John Wesley

  Country, Revenge, Garden

  30 Copy quote

• Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.

  Old Tom Morris

  Success, Meaningful, Hard Work

  25 Copy quote

• You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Break Through, Risk

  17 Copy quote

• You will learn that at higher levels of energy, our fields of prayer act very quickly to bring us exactly what we expect. If we fear, it brings to us what we fear. If we hate, it brings us more of what we hate. Thankfully when we go into these negative expectations, our prayer-fields collapse rather quickly because we lose our connection with the divine and are no longer outflowing love. But a fear expectation can still be powerful. That is why you must monitor your expectations carefully and set your field consciously.

  James Redfield

  Prayer, Hate, Expectations

  7 Copy quote

• One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.

  Les Brown

  Goal, Perfection, Excellence

  11 Copy quote

• For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

  Arleigh Burke

  War, Mean, Fighting

  25 Copy quote

• Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.

  Nigel Short

  Children, Essence, Games

  7 Copy quote