Most Powerful Quotes - Page 17

• Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and see that we are at our most beautiful when we open up.

  Shane Koyczan

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Powerful

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• The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

  Mitchell Baker

  Powerful, Platforms

  "Mozilla's Mitchell Baker On Being The Alternative To Microsoft, Google And Apple". Interview with Ryan Singel, www.wired.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love.

  Lauren Tarshis

  Crush, Powerful, Real

  Lauren Tarshis (2009). “Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell In Love”, p.32, Penguin

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• Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the love of God.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Powerful, Sin

  Billy Graham (2014). “Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.

  Wendy Alexander

  Sorry, Powerful, Four

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• In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Country, Religious

  "The peculiar history of the Pledge of Allegiance" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. December 23, 2013.

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• In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Spiritual, Powerful

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.563, Best Books on

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• Sloth is all passions the most powerful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Powerful, Passion, Sloth

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• The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Kings, Powerful, Hero

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Powerful

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Strong, Powerful, War

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• Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

  Tian Dayton

  Powerful, Talking, Silence

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• I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Powerful, Believe, Museums

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.

  Newt Gingrich

  Powerful, Our Society, Information

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• The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

  Max Lucado

  Powerful, Simple, Life Is

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

  Joseph Stalin

  Powerful, Party, Politics

  Joseph Stalin (1975). “Works”

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• He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Powerful, Imagination, Affection

  lord Francis Jeffrey (1879). “Essay on beauty, by Francis, lord Jeffrey; and Essays on the nature and principles of taste, by A. Alison. Repr. of the 5th ed”

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• My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Powerful, Life Lesson, Self

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• In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

  Pliny the Elder

  Powerful, Military, Often Is

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• In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

  Joseph Hertz

  Powerful, Motherhood, Longing

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1941). “Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot”

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• My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Friends, Powerful, Prayer

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.

  Anthony Brandt

  Powerful, Years, Ties

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• Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Brothers and sisters, I believe that there are few, even temple workers, who comprehend the full meaning and power of the temple endowment.  Seen for what it is, it is the step-by-step ascent into the Eternal Presence.  If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives.

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Brother, Motivation

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• The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.

  Bill Drayton

  Powerful, Hands, Ideas

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