Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Luntz

The ability to connect and communicate is one of the most powerful, and you cannot find anyone who has been truly successful in life that doesn't have that ability because you've got to motivate, and you've got to -frankly, you have to influence.

Frank Luntz

The most powerful call to action of anything that we've ever tested: Let's get to work.I didnt create that phrase. It came from Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida.

Frank Luntz

Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.

Maggie Kuhn

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

Maggie Stiefvater

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

Macy Gray

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

Madame de Stael

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Power is neither male nor female.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

Your full potential can only be awaken by the spirit of a powerful and positive attitude.

Jimmy Carter

When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.

Jimmy Carter

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

James Patterson

Sometimes being a leader isn’t about winning. Sometimes it’s about doing what’s right, instead of what’s powerful.

Ellen Page

I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?

Helene D. Gayle

There are plenty of risks when we encourage "investment" or commoditization of natural resources, as power dynamics may mean that poor people (who are often marginalized and have less power) are sidelined by more powerful interests when money is involved.

John Marshall

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

John le Carre

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

John Lahr

Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious.

Jim Rohn

What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more powerful the 'what for' is.

George Lucas

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

David Crosby

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

Charlie Munger

The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic system work better, just as, in reverse, a system that can be easily defrauded ruins a civilization. A system that's very hard to defraud, like a cash register, helped the economic performance of a civilization by reducing vice, but very few people within economics talk about it in those terms.

Ben Cohen

Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible.

Barbara Tuchman

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

Kate Christensen

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

Damian Kulash

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

Billy Graham

...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.

Daphne Oz

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

Cornel West

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

William O. Douglas

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.