Powerful People Quotes

Powerful People Quote of the day

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.

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.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

Only powerful people have liberty.

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?

Powerful people can love without being loved back.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

It's really important to have those people in your life who push you to be better, different.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

No matter how famous the victim, no matter how powerful the advocates, it simply isn't always possible to control the conduct of other people.

I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".

Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.

People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.

Your behaviour influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.

Government not just for a few, it belongs to the common people.

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have an obligation to think about how we're treating other people.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.

I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves.

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

There are some people who are very powerful who I will never name, because I want to be able to work in this town.

People by themselves can be pretty stupid. People working together can be very powerful.

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.