Powerful But Quotes

#1. Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Brene Brown

#2. They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.

Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.

Nova Ren Suma

#3. We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

Adam Gopnik

#5. Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?"
"You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic." He smiled at her

Josephine Angelini

#7. Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Patricia Hill Collins

#8. Young love is strong. First love is powerful. But what you don't know when you're young - what you can't know - is how long life actually is. And the only dependable thing about it, besides death and taxes, is change.

Emma Chase

#9. Michael Rafferty was a good
man. A solid man. He was never going to be Hugh Jackman handsome or Bill Gates rich or King of England powerful. But he was hers and he was Sean's and that was more than enough

J.R. Ward

#10. That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

Rufus Wainwright

#11. Change is powerful, but change always comes with the possibility of failure as its partner. "This might not work" isn't merely something to be tolerated; it's something you must seek out.

Seth Godin

#12. He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it ... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.

Donald Barthelme

#13. You aren't staying in heaven because you still need to purify the mind. Your faith is powerful, but it is invested in what you believe you are, and most of what you believe about yourself is a lie.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#14. When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a successful disciplinarian of something radically alien and potent. Analyze this sensation all you want; you still can't make it go away.

Walter Kirn

#15. It would be a word of empowerment, imagine every word coming from your mouth with a true desire to offer help to people knowing they are themselves powerful but need upliftment sometimes.

Harshada Pathare

#16. You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.

Ai Weiwei

#17. What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

Mary C. Ames

#18. Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#19. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Lao-Tzu

#20. Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.

Jay E. Adams

#21. You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Barbara Bush

#22. The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

Deborah Cox

#23. Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.

Ann Coulter

#24. What creates happiness, peace, and balance is not becoming simply powerful, but knowledgeable.

Frederick Lenz

#25. Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.

Laozi

#26. Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom.

W. H. Auden

#27. I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.

Alber Elbaz

#28. When the doctrine is clear and the culture is beautiful, that church will be powerful. But there are no shortcuts to getting there. Without the doctrine, the culture will be weak. Without the culture, the doctrine will seem pointless.

Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

#29. Our brains are fairly powerful, but our conscious minds are still extremely limited in their ability to hold onto multiple simultaneous thoughts

Steve Pavlina

#30. Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.

Cameron Russell

#31. I think one of the things I always loved about the comics was this idea that this character, when he goes berserk, that white, blind rage makes him incredibly powerful, but it's also a great flaw. It's almost like he loses consciousness of what he's doing. During that he can do great damage.

Hugh Jackman

#32. Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

Roald Dahl

#33. History will judge societies and governments - and their institutions - not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

Cesar Chavez

#34. He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.

Eric Rucker Eddison

#35. I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.

Oleg Cassini

#36. Train those around you well, Pug. Make them powerful, but make them loving, generous men and women as well.

Raymond E. Feist

#37. Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.

Paul David Tripp

#38. Powerful but insecure men don't take well to rejection. Rage could result.

Margaret Atwood

#39. The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn't wander.

Eknath Easwaran

#40. Your gaze is very powerful, but trust me, it won't open that door

Jamie Le Fay

#41. All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

Voltaire

#42. Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

Lykke Li

#43. That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.

Jeremiah Seed

#44. I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

Pauline Collins

#45. How I changed my mind about women in leadership came through the gradual piling up of anomalies against a powerful but unsustainable paradigm.

Alan F. Johnson

#46. Network effects can be powerful, but you'll never reap them unless your product is valuable to its very first users when the network is necessarily small.

Peter Thiel

#47. Fear is a powerful but conquerable emotion that is universal to all, necessary for living, ever present but constantly changing in its form.

Olarewaju Oladipo

#48. Knowledge can be powerful. But it can only be beautiful if there is more to it. If it is guided by something greater than the simple desire to enhance the potency of the mind.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#49. I think about boats, how they're powerful but so delicate compared to the fickle sea. I think about lighthouses, about safe mooring and how easy it is to crash.

Emery Lord

#50. Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had the restraint not to.

Shanna Swendson

#51. Sometimes words were cheap. They could be powerful, but in those rare occasions like now, words meant nothing.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#52. I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

Terence McKenna

#53. The Devil is powerful, but he's also predictable. We are told in 1 John 2:16 the exact three ways he's going to come after us. "For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father, but from the world.

Lysa TerKeurst

#54. Prayer is powerful, but if our prayers are aimless, meaningless, and mingled with doubt, they will be of little hope to us.

Billy Graham

#55. The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.

Ian Wilmut

#56. I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy. Like I live in this world of death and destruction and I'll never escape alive.

Paula Stokes

#57. You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

Joyce Meyer

#58. David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.

Jonathan Yardley

#59. In his work shirt and underpants, he looked powerful but also cartoonish, like a bear dressed up for a job interview.

David Sedaris

#60. The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

Michelle Kwan

#61. Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.

Joyce Meyer

#62. Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?

Layne Staley

#63. Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

Robert Greene

#64. I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

Peter Thiel

#65. Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be.

Joel Osteen

#66. The racial perception gap highlights one of the most powerful - but also least discussed - divisions between Americans on the topic of race: the rift between the descendants of White Christian America and the rest of the country.

Robert P. Jones

#67. Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

Tom Robbins

#68. She wondered if a person could be powerful, but inside be broken into pieces, and shaking, all the time.

Kristin Cashore

#69. The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

Muhammad

#70. It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well."
You mean I'll have a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense.

Rick Riordan

#71. Now I know Jesus Christ is more powerful. But having accepted Jesus as my Savior, I now see the chains that held me down. Not only is Jesus more powerful, He is love.

Vicki V. Lucas

#72. Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

E. Jean Carroll

#73. I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

Dot Richardson

#74. The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine.

Isobelle Carmody

#75. The true God is the God we conceive as all-powerful, but Who nevertheless does not command it where He has the power, for God is found only in the heavens or here below in secret.

Simone Weil

#76. 2. Boast not thyself in thy riches if thou hast them, nor in thy friends if they be powerful, but in God, who giveth all things,

Thomas A Kempis

#77. Fear is powerful, but your soul is unafraid. Find your soul and it will dissolve your suffering.

Deepak Chopra

#78. A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency.

Og Mandino

#79. Cristiano is an explosive type of player, with great technique, but he's still not as gifted as Messi in my opinion. Messi is more of a genius than Cristiano. Cristiano is so strong physically, so powerful, but Messi has more creativity.

Fabio Capello

#80. The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Lester B. Pearson

#81. Our mind is extremely powerful but it is also full of random thoughts.

Kanth Miriyala

#82. I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

Michael Jackson

#83. I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish

Jamie Oliver

#84. He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves - the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself. Matter loves matter. It seeks to know more about itself, and Dust is formed.

Philip Pullman

#85. [Toby] reflected that being cruel sometimes makes you rich and powerful, but it always makes you ugly.

Timothee De Fombelle

#86. Emotions are powerful, but they also change as quick as the wind. That's why the Lord says to renew your mind. Don't base decisions on what you feel.

Francine Rivers

#87. There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.

Kevin O'Leary

#88. I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.

Charlie Kaufman

#89. What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

June Jordan

#90. The tiger and the lion may be more powerful, but the wolf does not perform in the circus.

Unknown

#91. I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.

Robert Greene

#92. You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged ...

Bryan Stevenson

#93. I'm not strong enough for this," he whispered in her ear - like he didn't want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. Ever. Running her hands up his powerful back, she held him just as hard. "But I am.

J.R. Ward

#94. Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.

Lionel

#95. I understood a powerful fact: formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich! The

Jim Rohn

#96. When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

Gordon B. Hinckley

#97. But contemporary capitalism increasingly has the power to eliminate the intimacy and accountability of human relationships. So in the marketplace, as in every field, there is an urgent need for those with a powerful compass.

Timothy Keller

#98. Yes, I believe in God, but I don't perform a daily puja. I don't have any gurus. Ek baat hai,destiny, koi cheez hai.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#99. Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.

Shams Tabrizi

#100. Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians.

Donna Tartt