Quotes about powerful
powerful character feelings
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them. Carl von Clausewitz
powerful character sea
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
powerful superficial
Image is powerful. But image is also superficial. Cameron Russell
powerful water stuff
Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it? C. S. Lewis
powerful offering order
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react.
powerful past self
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure. Calvin Coolidge
powerful together benefits
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all,
powerful way care
Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others. Bryant H. McGill
powerful purpose becoming
Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.
powerful littles action
There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
powerful intelligence literature
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
powerful humility tools
The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.
powerful talking way
Talking about peoples lived experiences is a powerful way to mobilize them. We can create new rules. Celinda Lake
powerful struggle army
Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using non-violence because they want desperately to bring about some change. Non-violence in action is a very potent force and it can't be stopped. The people who are struggling have the complete say-so. No man-made law, no human ruler, no army can destroy this. There is no way it can be destroyed... And so, if we have the capacity to endure, if we have the patience, things will change. Cesar Chavez
powerful sick justice
People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is truly nourishing. Such sick people should not frighten or discourage us. They should be prayed for along with the sick people who are in the hospital. "The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature."
powerful men land
There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?
powerful struggle justice
Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
powerful sacrifice weapons
When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.
powerful government judging
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.
powerful attitude believe
Some authorities believe that one prosperous thought is more powerful than a thousand failure thoughts; and that two prosperous attitudes steadily held and expressed are more powerful than ten thousand failure attitudes! Catherine Ponder
powerful attitude two
One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.
powerful healing heal
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
powerful strong tech
Now they have a pretty strong portfolio. This is a powerful tech story for the company, and they need that.
powerful rich talking
We're talking about powerful mafias. They're powerful, they're rich and they're ruthless.
powerful rap exercise
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. Stephen Jay Gould
powerful airplane men
The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (An even more evil man, armed only with a longbow, could not have wreaked such havoc at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
powerful views common-sense
Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.
powerful silly men
Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, "for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
powerful stuff expecting
Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it. Kurt Vonnegut
powerful angel order
Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings. Billy Graham
powerful hymns people
...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.
powerful attitude animal
MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.
powerful
We only had Kalashnikov rifles. Now we have more powerful weapons. Adnan Pachachi