Powerful True Quotes

#1. When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called. Only the powerful always know with great clarity who their true enemies are.

Umberto Eco

#2. [There is] type [of actors ]a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people. Meryl Streep is amazing at it.

Michelle Rodriguez

#3. One can see [ ... ] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those who manipulate the nation are not stupid. Rulers throughout history are only as powerful as the people who support them allow them to be.

Peter Moon

#4. Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

Bryant H. McGill

#5. True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

Adyashanti

#6. When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.

Bryant McGill

#7. Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans

Adolf Hitler

#9. It is easy to comprehend people who are weaker than ourselves, but it is not as simple to be ready for the true feelings of those more powerful.

Norman Mailer

#10. An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

Maxwell Maltz

#11. Sure, Lena gets the credit for being the most powerful Caster of all time. Whatever. It doesn't make me any less excellent. Neither does her too-good-to-be-true Mortal boyfriend, Ethan "the Wayward" Wate, who defeats Darkness in the name of true love every day of the week.

Kami Garcia

#12. With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro's true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse.

Jeremy Robert Johnson

#13. there is no more powerful medicine than true love. Love can heal any wound

Valter Dos Santos

#14. Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. When man has no strength, if he leans on God he becomes powerful. The trouble is that we have too much strength and confidence in ourselves.

D.L. Moody

#15. Names are powerful things.

Nicola Yoon

#16. My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

Jess C. Scott

#17. Evelyn suspected there was never true equality in marriage. Someone always had stronger feelings, or held the purse strings, or was more persuasive, powerful, and pushy.

Victoria Helen Stone

#18. There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

Nicole Krauss

#19. Indonesia can hold regular elections, but if the laws do not apply to the most powerful elements in society, then there is no rule of law and no genuine democracy. The country will never become a true democracy until it takes serious steps to end impunity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#20. Kurosawa was one of film's true greats ... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate to name the new digital studio for him.

George Lucas

#21. Those two little words
says you
are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say something, it is you who says it. You. And what do you know?

J. Mark Bertrand

#22. Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#23. As was true with every powerful person I had known, and there were but a few, his greatness made him humble and kind.

Patricia Cornwell

#24. On average, an individual doesn't have a powerful connection with more than four to six people, and that's just as true here in the U.S. as it is in China.

Geoffrey West

#25. Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

J.G. Holland

#26. That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

Barack Obama

#27. When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

Chinua Achebe

#29. Maybe it was true that only beauty would save the world, or truth, or some other high-flown garbage; but fear was still more powerful than anything else. Fear destroyed everything: everything born of beauty, the tender shoots of all that was fine, wise, eternal...

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#30. If you have ever been in a life-or-death emergency situation, you will know that it wasn't a problem. The mind didn't have time to fool around and make it into a problem. In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over.

Eckhart Tolle

#31. 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

#32. The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.

Simon Schama

#33. Free will is a powerful thing. Sometimes it's the only way to realize your true destiny.

Alyson Noel

#34. Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

Hannah Arendt

#35. Generally speaking, followers will not commit themselves for very long to a leader who is not also a pragmatist. As most of us have discovered, dreams are only powerful when we believe they can come true. Pipe dreams belong in the realm of fantasy; leaders' dreams belong in the realm of possibility.

Marlene Caroselli

#36. Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!

Steve Maraboli

#37. Pianos should never go out of tune. The true sin is something different than what we've been taught; the true sin is living so far removed from absolute harmony. That is more powerful than the truths and lies we tell every day. I

Paulo Coelho

#38. As they say, it's possible to kill and to revive someone using a proper speech. I agree with the statement because I know for sure it is true.

Sahara Sanders

#39. Who is my child?" The true nature of your child is a powerful guide for you.

Jean Haner

#40. Fear in its most wicked, powerful form cripples our souls and warps the very fabric of our true hearts.

Stasi Eldredge

#41. 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

#42. I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.

Mona Simpson

#43. Safe wasn't quite what appealed to her right then. Safe wasn't how she felt. Invincible, in control, powerful- those words felt closer to true.

Melissa Marr

#44. True love can break the most powerful curse

Jodi Picoult

#45. No matter
how big my attempts to hide from my true nature, it still existed. I was a machine,and a powerful one.

Debra Driza

#46. In our cynical world, where suspicion is a necessity, insisting that something is true is not nearly as powerful as suggesting that something might be true.

Thomas King

#47. Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.

Jim Butcher

#48. The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.

Blu Cantrell

#49. Self awareness is only powerful when knowledge is understood and applied, only then can it manifest into true wisdom!

Martin R. Lemieux

#50. The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

Umberto Eco

#51. There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics.

Trip Hawkins

#52. If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.

Bruce Lipton

#53. The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.

Johan Bruyneel

#54. Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!

Gena Showalter

#55. We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

Joseph Stalin

#56. Years ago, homosexuals were given special status within the tribe. They had powerful medicine. I think it's even more true today, even though our tribe has assimilated into homophobia. I mean, a person has to have magic to assert their identity without regard to all the bullshit, right?

Sherman Alexie

#57. The words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language ... those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

Donald Miller

#58. 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

#59. The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no

Colum McCann

#60. In true budo there is no enemy or opponent. True budo is to become one with the universe, not train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to mankind around the world.

Morihei Ueshiba

#61. I am incredibly, incredibly fortunate about the opportunities I've had. But at the same time, I've had plenty of opportunities to screw it up, too. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is 'No ... ' and not feel the need to do everything. It's about doing what rings true to me.

America Ferrera

#62. Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#63. When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.

Elizabeth George

#64. Silence is a powerful tool.

Na

#65. But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.

Lee Tergesen

#66. Love is about as strong, as two people want to make it.

Anthony Liccione

#67. The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.

Lajos Kossuth

#68. If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.

Hugh MacLeod

#69. I know my name now. Love Warrior. I came from Love and I am Love and I will return to Love. Love casts out fear. A woman who has recovered her true identity as a Love Warrior is the most powerful force on earth. All the darkness and shame and pain in the world can't defeat her.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#70. A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.

Robert McKee

#71. The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments ... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.

Hector Berlioz

#72. Dov Frohman, the founder of Intel Israel, later said that to create a true culture of innovation, "fear of loss often proves more powerful than the hope of gain.

Dan Senor

#73. Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.

Wayne Dyer

#74. I Can't Live without You. expresses the full meaning of true love. It is a beautiful and powerful emotion, words can never express, nor can the mind comprehend its connection within two souls.

Ellen J. Barrier

#75. [I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.

Edward Abbey

#76. On this path, we are making a bet that underneath all of that, you are big and powerful and good. All of that power, that wisdom, and that excellence is your true nature. All you have to do is carve away and drop the bullshit.

David H. Wagner

#77. As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men.

Sheryl Sandberg

#78. Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.

Rick Riordan

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

Voltaire

#80. The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls.

Denis Avey

#81. The true India resides in its villages

Charan Singh

#82. I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

Paul Robeson

#83. An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool.

Stephen Baxter

#84. It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

J.G. Ballard

#85. The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

Ibn Khaldun

#86. It's true that when Christianity is socially powerful, faith can look from the outside as if it is mainly a matter of membership, of participation in the vast synchronised swim of institutions.

Francis Spufford

#87. Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful.

Vironika Tugaleva

#88. I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.

Elizabeth Bowen

#89. Learn to recognize true wealth. Money itself will not make you financially free. That comes as a result of only that powerful state of mind which tells us that we are worth far more than our money.

Suze Orman

#90. Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

Dean Ornish

#91. The phrase "timing is everything" is never more true than in your walk with God - HIS timing is everything.

Stormie O'martian

#92. There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

Randy Alcorn

#93. Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.

Akiane Kramarik

#94. True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#95. Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.

Marni Jackson

#96. Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Herbert Hoover

#97. 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

#98. Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice produces true sounds. Unify body, mind, and speech, and real techniques will emerge.

Morihei Ueshiba

#99. When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

Marilynne Robinson

#100. True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible.

Debasish Mridha