Top 625 Powerful Quotes

Whether we’re talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one’s weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.
Patrick Lencioni
You cannot represent cool. You’ve got to be cool. You’ve got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.
Henry Winkler
Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.
Henri Nouwen
Better still – your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
Breyten Breytenbach
There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone

There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.
Kim Reynolds
I really like mugwort. It’s a witch plant and a purifier of energy. It’s considered to be very important and powerful in the Celtic and Scandinavian tradition.
Kerli
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can’t really name a movement that didn’t start with the spoken word.
Nancy Duarte
Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.
Future
I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
Idi Amin
People used to respect royalty to an insane extent that doesn’t exist nowadays. These people never shouted. They never moved, really. Their effort was minimum. They were the most powerful people, but they were just calm.
Sofia Boutella
We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm.
Evan Spiegel
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth – I just hate what is being done with it.
Alton Brown
I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.
Lubna Olayan
I will say that a lot of art, some of the best art, has very powerful and meaningful messages behind it, and the more you read the stuff on the walls, the more you learn the artist’s intention, and you have a totally new point of view of what it’s about.
Abbi Jacobson
The optimum telephone is one that I think some day is gonna be embedded behind your ear. It’s gonna have an extraordinarily powerful computer running the cell phone.
Martin Cooper
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Edward de Bono
The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, ‘Let’s explore because it’s fun.’ It was, ‘Let’s explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let’s explore so we can become more powerful.’
Neil deGrasse Tyson
We must well grow the valuable seeds, which the great Comrade Kim Jong Il sowed to build an economically powerful state and improve the people’s livelihood, and lead them to bloom as a glorious reality.
Kim Jong-un
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We’re trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
Philip Zimbardo
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
Zoltan Kodaly
What unites Trump’s voters is a sense of alienation from America’s wealthy and powerful.
J. D. Vance
Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.
DJ Khaled
I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.
John Kennedy
I feel like I’m small and mighty and pack a powerful punch, just like Tide PODS.
Simone Biles
‘Peace Train’ is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens
Tradition is a very powerful force.
John P. Kotter
Being reminded about the incredible power of God’s love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change.
Rick Warren
People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us.
Todd Howard
Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There’s a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.
Dan Gilroy
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.
Stephen Kinzer
I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I’m 63, but I don’t feel it. I feel like I’m in my 40s. I enjoy life.
Bonnie Tyler
I read ‘Rebecca’ when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.
Lisa Unger
The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.
Azim Premji
I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my h

I’ve helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It’s a powerful example of love that really works.
Shelley Long
When lorry drivers come up behind me and I’m cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
Boris Johnson
If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
Adam Michnik
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
Dorothy Day
I’m a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past.
Wilbur Smith
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear – that’s what makes it powerful.
Rupi Kaur
Public health is a powerful tool to level that playing field, to bend the arc of our country away from distrust and disparities and back towards equity and justice.
Leana S. Wen
I do think that overall blockchains are likely to be a much more powerful force for good than evil.
Roger Ver
It’s about your heart and about your consciousness. It’s not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I’ve ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.
Iyanla Vanzant
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Ovid
The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.
David R. Brower
What’s powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It’s seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
Patrick Swayze
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.
Mark Pagel
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
David Lynch
American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism – Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It’s not as if these things haven’t always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.
Bill Kristol
Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn’t appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
Omari Hardwick
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
Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.
Billie Eilish
Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.
Billie Eilish
Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It’s totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don’t think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.
James McAvoy
Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.
Arvind Gupta
The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
Azim Premji