Powerful Means Quotes

#1. The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength ... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.

Father Damien

#2. Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.

Georgie Henley

#3. Being powerful means shifting our minds away from our troubles and into solution-thinking.

Bryant McGill

#4. Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

Nancy Duarte

#5. Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

Robert B. Laughlin

#6. I think that the first men to land on Pluto are going to make some very astonishing discoveries. But I am also sure that they will never go there in rockets. They will have to make the immense trip by some more powerful means - like the anti-gravitational drive.

Donald A. Wollheim

#7. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Ai Weiwei

#8. I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.

Seymour Papert

#9. A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army.

Antoine-Henri Jomini

#10. Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

Lewis Howard Latimer

#11. Psychological theories of illness are a powerful means of placing the blame on the ill. Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have deserved it.

Susan Sontag

#12. I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.

Harvey MacKay

#13. Believe me, there is no more powerful means to obtain God's grace than to employ the intercessions of the Holy Virgin.

Philip Neri

#14. Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

Gene Sharp

#15. In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.

Georgette Mosbacher

#16. Stories and images can be powerful means for conveying ideas. Every time we read a book or watch a movie, we enter into an imaginative

Nancy Pearcey

#17. I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

Leonard Lauder

#18. Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.

Lewis B. Smedes

#19. The world should take notice when someone ... with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.

Rodrigue Tremblay

#20. Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#21. More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Susan Stewart

#22. Say no to powerful people, even when doing so means taking a great risk.

Paulo Coelho

#23. Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

Dave Ramsey

#25. To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

John Henrik Clarke

#26. A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

Hal Abelson

#27. To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

James A. Garfield

#28. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Kenzo Tange

#29. I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people the way 'Community' means something to people. That's more powerful than ratings.

Gillian Jacobs

#30. It is a sad truth, but one acknowledged by any person who can bother to read the law, that the inferior legal status of a woman in Europa means she is best protected by having a powerful family or, lacking that, by finding the strongest protector and marrying him.

Kate Elliott

#31. SMILE Is Not Just A Word ... It Means A Lot, Love, Trust, Warmth, Tenderness Etc, In Fact It Means WORLD ... So SMILE ALWAYS ... That Means, YOU Are Giving A WORLD To SOMEONE ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#32. There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

Eliphas Levi

#33. Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them!

Israelmore Ayivor

#34. He means to marry you?" "He tells me so." She surveyed my whole person: in her eyes I read that they had there found no charm powerful enough to solve the enigma.

Charlotte Bronte

#35. Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

John F. Carlson

#36. Lord Rama renounced his kingdom and became the most powerful king in the land. Buddha renounced the world and the world fell at his feet. Cornelia, my innocent girl, please do not believe that renunciation is to forsake power. Rather, it's the very means to power!' Chandragupta

Ashwin Sanghi

#37. Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#38. It means that two people start loving each other. I guess because it can feel really sudden and because it's powerful. Like gravity
an unstoppable force.

Heather Anastasiu

#39. They would destroy every last woman and child with any means at their disposal. You do not let your foot off the throat of an enemy and remain powerful,

Pierce Brown

#40. In Greek, "nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound". It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.

Don Draper

#41. But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are 'they?'"
"I don't know. Just people."
"That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?

John Connolly

#42. Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

Pierre Curie

#43. The farther and more deeply we penetrate into matter, by means of increasingly powerful methods, the more we are confounded by the interdependence of its parts.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#44. A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

Ada Lovelace

#45. When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

Malcolm X

#46. You are not by any manner of means the sort of woman I am in search of as a wife, and I am in a totally different universe from the husband you hope to find. But I feel a powerful urge to kiss you, for all that.

Mary Balogh

#47. Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.

David Luiz

#48. To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

Jack Lynch

#49. The weight of words.
Words can be fearsome weapons, tools or means powerful!

Joko Ono

#50. To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler

#51. Redefine what it means to be sexy and what it means to be a woman. Showing my skin is not what makes me sexy. I like skirts and dresses just like everyone else, but I had a message I needed to put out there. It was up to me to show people and young girls there was another way.

Janelle Monae

#52. The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.

Noam Chomsky

#53. The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.

Richard Rohr

#54. It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a powerful voting bloc, no question, but they're liberal as well as conservative - and they're made of Latinos, blacks, whites.

Franklin Graham

#55. No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful ...

C. Wright Mills

#56. Sometimes there are leftwing governments I'm very critical of. For me, being leftwing is to live in a society where there's permanent change. It also means to respect the freedom of everybody, and to not accept big organizations or rich, powerful people holding power.

Costa-Gavras

#57. The Key means a lot to me as a powerful symbol to believe, and this new fragrance is my message to my fans to always believe in their dreams.

Justin Bieber

#58. What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the strongest, clearest, boldest terms that the Constitution guarantees the freedom to marry and equal protection for all Americans and all means all, including gay couples.

Evan Wolfson

#59. The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

Bernard Bailyn

#60. Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.

Pope Francis

#61. I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

Clive Owen

#62. We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

Annie Lennox

#63. In a world of tangled want, individual longings are often co-opted by more powerful interests. Satisfied desire in one sphere means loss in another.

Anonymous

#64. Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.

Max McKeown

#65. Love doesn't conquer all; it's a powerful tool to overcome everything because it means you're not alone.

Stephanie Witter

#66. Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings.

Henry Makow

#67. You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

Eckhart Tolle

#68. Means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently. 1 Corinthians 10:13

Joyce Meyer

#69. If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny, and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#70. Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.

Ilchi Lee

#71. If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.

Luc Delahaye

#72. There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. By no means do I think I'm the most powerful person.

Sundar Pichai

#73. Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Nelson Mandela

#74. It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.

Martin Jacques

#75. He taught me to be a Da Vinci
and I sit here, with his portraits
waiting for him to return
I do not think he will
Is that what it means to be human
to be all powerful,
to build a temple to yourself
and leave
only the walls to pray

Phil Kaye

#76. When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Jon Williams

#77. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Paulo Freire

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.

Francois Fenelon

#81. Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

Eric Schneiderman

#82. Prejudice means literally pre-judgment, the rejection of a contention out of hand, before examining the evidence. Prejudice is the result of powerful emotions, not of sound reasoning.

Carl Sagan

#83. For great many species today, "fitness" means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

Michael Pollan

#84. The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that means
Poor Justin!

Sarah Strohmeyer

#85. People on the Spiritual Path are not anemic. They must be sharp, strong, and courageous. Being Spiritual means being Powerful, Dynamic, and Intelligent.

Choa Kok Sui

#86. I wanted to do an album that was very simple and very minimal in the context of instrumentation and stuff. I wanted to use as few means as possible to create a very powerful and interesting sound that would breathe.

Sune Rose Wagner

#87. Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

Christopher Reeve

#88. Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification

Dorothy Holder

#89. Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.

Patricia Garfield

#90. The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall?
Anita Blake

Laurell K. Hamilton

#91. Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

Albert Bandura

#92. Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

Anna D. Shapiro

#93. For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army or seizing control of the means of production and reproduction.

Phyllis Chesler

#94. Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.

Neale Donald Walsch

#95. Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

Noam Chomsky

#96. To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

John Marshall

#97. Many people know that animals around the world are treated badly, yet they turn their minds away. To be vegan means to care deeply about how our choices help or harm animals, how we create peace or suffering in the world. Our choices are powerful. Vegan is love.

Ruby Roth

#98. The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Charles Spurgeon

#99. Those in power are so afraid of losing it, they will do anything to keep the world under their control. Even when 'anything' means ignoring dangerous truths that threaten to grow more powerful the longer they're unaddressed.

Romina Russell

#100. I am not convinced that means [Donald] Trump is a lock to be the next president but it does suggest that what he has tapped into is both lasting and powerful.

Christopher Michael Cillizza