Powerful Quotes - Page 25

• All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

  Voltaire

  Equality, Citizens, May

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.379

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• What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

  Mother Jones

  Corporations, Unions, Corruption

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• Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Differences, Effort

  "Knowing your 'action' style could lead to success" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2008.

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• A mother has a unique perspective. Nobody sees the life of the child the way the child’s mother does—not even the father. This is Mary’s perspective of Jesus life. It seems to me that every genuine Christian, not just Catholics, should be interested in that perspective—and not just interested, but fascinated. In the rosary we ponder the life of Jesus through the eyes of his mother. This is an incredibly powerful experience if we enter into it fully

  Matthew Kelly

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

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• What scares me is what scares you. We’re all afraid of the same things. That’s why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you’ll know what frightens me.

  John Carpenter

  Horror Genre, Scare, Knows

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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

  Heart, Stories, Life Is

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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

  Passion, Wine, Fuel

  "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, Energy, Most Powerful

  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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• Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.

  George Leonard

  Real, Ideas, Keys

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• The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

  Pat Williams

  Communication, Tools, Tongue

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• If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.

  Martha Beck

  Moving, Small Changes, Turtles

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• The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Errors, Effort

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1828). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.115

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• We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Motivation, Empowering

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• There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.

  Les Brown

  Mind, Changed

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• Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains

  Martha Beck

  Moving, Mountain, Gentle

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• Practice only makes for improvement.

  Les Brown

  Practice, Improvement

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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

  Talking, Use, Way

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• J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

  Michael O'Brien

  Emotional, Media, Imagination

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• Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.

  William Ellery Channing

  Spring, War, Passion

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.34

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• Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

  Edward Young

  Ambition, Source, Ill

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.146

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• A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.

  John Webster

  Pain, Support, Feelings

  John Webster (2008). “Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

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• A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip.

  Elizabeth George

  People, Gossip, And Love

  Elizabeth George (2007). “A Woman After God's Own Heart®--A Daily Devotional”, p.315, Harvest House Publishers

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• The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

  Charles Buxton

  Determination, Differences, Energy

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• Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

  Graham Greene

  Aphrodisiac, Fame

  Quoted in Radio Times, 10 Sept. 1964

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• Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.

  James Thurber

  Eye, Brain, Gleam

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