Most Powerful Quotes - Page 11

• Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Powerful, Action, Excitement

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• O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

  Henry Fielding

  Art, Powerful, Eye

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1596, Delphi Classics

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• Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Powerful, Enemy, Enthusiasm

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.260

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• Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

  Sallust

  Powerful, Broken, Unity

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• To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Powerful, Healing

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.100, Random House

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• Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

  Hannah Arendt

  Powerful, Thinking, Affair

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

  Novalis

  Powerful, Savages, Rivals

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• 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

  Art, Powerful, Real

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• I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Powerful, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Investment, Instruments

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.364, Mango Media Inc.

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• If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Motivation, Powerful

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• Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

  Paul Valery

  Powerful, Adjectives, Advertising

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• The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not the great book or epic play, as once was the case, that will shape that opinion, but those who understand mass media and the techniques of mass persuasion...We must not just believe in what we sell. We must sell what we believe in. And we must pour a vast energy into those causes.

  William Bernbach

  Powerful, Believe, Book

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• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Powerful, Men, Earth

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• Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

  Kent Conrad

  Powerful, America, Long

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• In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

  John Conyers

  Powerful, Government, World

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• It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Powerful, War, Civilization

  "The Clash of Civilizations?". Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.com. Summer 1993.

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• Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

  John Philip Sousa

  Beauty, Powerful, Opera

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• If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

  Seth Lloyd

  Powerful, Computer, Wanted

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• It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Powerful, Animal, Mma

  FaceBook post by Georges St-Pierre from May 25, 2011

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• The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

  Galen

  Powerful, Writing, Fate

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• I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

  Kalle Lasn

  Powerful, Believe, Aesthetics

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• On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

  Francois Arago

  Powerful, Eye, Science

  François Arago, William Henry Smyth, Baden Powell, Robert Grant, Sir William Fairbairn (1859). “Biographies of distinguished scientific men”, p.347

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• The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

  Carl Bernstein

  Powerful, Responsibility, Reality

  "The best obtainable version of the truth". Carl Bernstein's talk at the annual convention of the Radio and Television News Directors Association, September 26, 1998.

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