Top 100 Powerful People Quotes
#1. The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.
David Jeremiah
#2. I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really.
Sigourney Weaver
#3. Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.
Laurie H. Hutzler
#4. Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.
Sherry Argov
#5. Big changes don't happen at the battlefield; they are made in closed rooms where very powerful people decide in which direction things should go.
Henning Mankell
#6. Powerful people initiate speech more often, talk more overall, and make more eye contact while they're speaking than powerless people do. When we feel powerful, we speak more slowly and take more time. We don't rush. We're not afraid to pause. We feel entitled to the time we're using.
Amy Cuddy
#7. Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.
Ronan Farrow
#8. There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.
Wendell Berry
#10. She did not hate Clent for the way he had spoken. For most of her life she had been at the mercy of stronger and more powerful people who cared nothing for her. She had always been afraid, and her fear had made her angry.
Frances Hardinge
#11. I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
John Sweeney
#12. The dream of a planned, fair, moral, ethical, cash-free society remains strong, particularly among socialists and liberals. It clearly represents a fundamental human instinct. But feudalism just did not work very well, if only because powerful people will not always obey moral imperatives.
Terence Kealey
#13. 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
#14. Powerful people who lose power do not feel anguish and heartache like a jilted lover.
Terry Goodkind
#15. Humanity is filled with beautiful and positive and powerful people who care. I'm so glad we have people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the world.
Judy Collins
#16. To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.
Jim Rohn
#17. We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.
John Henrik Clarke
#18. [Superheroes] aren't fascists. They are just ordinary, decent, super-powerful people who inhabit a world in which fascism is the only political possibility.
David Graeber
#19. For the trouble with our rich and powerful people is not so much that they are wicked, but that they do not enjoy themselves.
Alan W. Watts
#20. Powerful people can love without being loved back.
Danny Silk
#21. The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
Michael Caine
#22. It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.
Janeane Garofalo
#23. Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.
Lorne Michaels
#24. If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.
Jose Gonzalez
#25. I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.
Stephen Colbert
#26. The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine ... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
#27. Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.
Alex Steffen
#28. There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.
Orson Scott Card
#29. Those are some of the most powerful people in the world, and you swamped them in sewage! If you had real friends, they'd have told you that you're an idiot for even thinking about doing that!"
Tom bristled, indignant. "My friends do tell me I'm an idiot. All the time!
S.J. Kincaid
#30. You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.
Steven Seagal
#31. He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.
Graham Cooke
#32. The lesson? Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.
J.D. Vance
#33. You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.
Patrick Henry
#34. Powerful people come from all walks of life and leave their mark upon the world in a variety of ways. But one thing is common to them all. They move through the world with pure vitality. It is as though all their switches have been turned on.
Chris Kilham
#35. And pity
people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you
that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
Deb Caletti
#36. A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.
John Cusack
#37. One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.
Ice-T
#38. People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.
Zig Ziglar
#39. I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.
Elif Safak
#41. You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.
Erika Slezak
#42. When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud ... these were very, very intimidating and powerful people.
Helen Mirren
#43. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick, & Colon.
Kurt Vonnegut
#44. She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be her excuse tonight.
Kate White
#45. As you said, he had everything. That made him feel safe and powerful. People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful.
Becky Chambers
#46. Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.
Dr. John
#47. Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war
Pope Francis
#48. Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.
Hilton Als
#49. People run after respect in this world. We think respect will come from our money, car, the brand of our clothing, and the connections we have with powerful people. Dignity and respect will only come when we take Allah as our teacher.
Nouman Ali Khan
#51. What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the most athletic people, but they're very powerful people, and they have tremendous stamina ... It takes a toll on their body, too.
Jon Favreau
#52. Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
Elizabeth Janeway
#53. The truth shall set you free...unless of course you live anywhere w/vengeful, powerful people and/or government - John: First Draft
Grea Alexander
#54. If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?
John Edgar Wideman
#55. Say no to powerful people, even when doing so means taking a great risk.
Paulo Coelho
#56. Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin
#57. Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.
Danny Silk
#58. 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
#59. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
Kurt Vonnegut
#60. Make a list of 200 prestigious, influential, and powerful people with whom you want to work, play, grow and do business.
Mark Victor Hansen
#61. A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.
Daniel Suarez
#62. Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.
Robin Hobb
#63. The Senate has passed a new bill that requires TV stations to lower the volume level on commercials. This is great, a hundred of the most powerful people in the nation have managed to do the same thing my remote does.
Jimmy Fallon
#64. I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?
Sarah Stillman
#65. I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am also inspired by hard work and powerful people who have maintained a sense of integrity, decency, and kindness. Love really inspires me.
Erica Tazel
#66. Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#67. You can't write novels without a touch of paranoia. I'm paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.
Kurt Vonnegut
#68. All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.
Bill O'Reilly
#69. As the most powerful people in history, we have climbed to the top of the world food chain, so to speak. Facing not one single enemy or predator who poses to us any danger of consequence, we've found the only prey left: ourselves.
Gavin De Becker
#70. A political campaign has a central place in the cultural life of a people. It tells citizens what issues powerful people think are worth hearing about.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#71. Powerful people are not affected or infected by their environment. They refuse to be victims of others.
Danny Silk
#72. Your behaviour influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences.
John Heider
#73. People who want to go to power places all of the time and want to be around powerful people, they don't last long in the study.
Frederick Lenz
#74. I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.
Richard MacDonald
#75. Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
John Henrik Clarke
#76. To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.
Jack Lynch
#77. Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.
Philip Wylie
#78. Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people.
Frederick Lenz
#79. Powerful people do not have good listening skills. They hate to listen. They succeed by getting good at faking it ... If you're an extrovert, you think while you're talking. And it's impossible to listen to someone if you are thinking of the next thing you want to say.
Penelope Trunk
#80. The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right.
Margaret Heffernan
#82. There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.
Chris Oyakhilome
#83. I don't feel pity for those, who give up by ending their own lives. They must not be so coward; in fact they are the most powerful people in the world, because everyone is scare of death, and they aren't.
M.F. Moonzajer
#84. Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.
Sakyong Mipham
#85. Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
Andrew Thomas
#86. I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.
Shonda Rhimes
#87. Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.
Brian Tracy
#88. Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.
Paul Arden
#89. Vulnerable people are powerful people. Opening your heart and sharing it means you're going to get so much love in your life. and it's the way to true connection and real purpose and meaning in your life, in my opinion.
Amy Poehler
#90. I was always dreaming about very powerful people. Dictators and things like that. I was always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years. Even like Jesus, being remembered for thousands of years.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#91. For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.
Michael Medved
#92. Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.
Ajahn Brahm
#93. Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
Pat Robertson
#94. Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact, powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales.
Yuval Noah Harari
#95. People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.
John Holdren
#96. And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some very powerful states have agreed to work together to heal the problems of another autonomous state and, almost as collateral, turn some animals into people at a stroke.
Terry Pratchett
#98. The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
Franz Kafka
#99. A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#100. There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next.
Sue Gardner
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