Powerful Person Quotes:

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

- Harper Lee

source: To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 11 (1960)

topic: Honesty, Powerful, Integrity, Jem And Scout, Kill A Mockingbird Memorable

As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

- Jonathan Karl

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Powerful, Mean, Wrath, Powerful Person, Incurring

Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of power. Without wisdom, a powerful person does not become more powerful. Their power will turn back on them and eventually destroy them. So those who are truly wise become most powerful.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Wise, Powerful, Yoga, Powerful Person

As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the mountains or desert and check into a little cabin. Go by yourself.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Nature, Powerful, Buddhism, Powerful Person

I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.

- Joseph McGinty Nichol

source: "Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler and Director McG Talk THIS MEANS WAR". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

topic: Powerful, Black, Hollywood, Powerful Person

In order to be able to make and keep commitments... to enduring, intimate relationships... you need to be a certain kind of person. You need to be a powerful person. Powerful people take responsibility for their lives and choices. Powerful people choose who they want to be with, what they are going to pursue in life, and how they are going to go after it.

- Danny Silk

topic: Powerful, Commitment, Responsibility, Life And Choices, Powerful Person

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

- Rick Perlstein

source: "Inside the GOP’s Fact-Free Nation" by Rick Perlstein, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

topic: Powerful, Lying, Two, Powerful Person

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

- Les Brown

topic: Inspirational, Powerful, Goal, Powerful Person

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Powerful, Aphrodisiac, Persons, Powerful Person

The concept of God as a loving, all-powerful person, who created us, who has a plan for us, who issues commandments, and who is ready to receive us into Heaven, is a substantial concept, rich in meaning and significance for human life. But if we take away all this, and leave only the idea of an original cause, it is questionable whether the same word should even be used. By keeping the original word, we delude ourselves into thinking that we are talking about the same thing.

- James Rachels

source: James Rachels (1990). “Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Ideas, Powerful Person

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

- Christopher Titus

source: "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

topic: Powerful, Lying, Secret, Powerful Person

A Republican primary race that has for months alternated between spectacle and abomination has over the past 20th hours ignited into a raging, full-blown dumpster fire. One stoke by a group of men who hope to become the most powerful person in the world.

- Chris Hayes

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Powerful, Past, Men, Abomination, Dumpsters

Colin Powell speaks regularly to high-ranking U.S. officials, he knows a lot about what's going on in the government. And so he's a powerful person who merits transparency, just like any other powerful people do.

- Glenn Greenwald

source: Source: www.cbc.ca

topic: Powerful, Government, People, Powerful Person

Donald Trump isn`t doing anyone any favors by running to be the most powerful person on the planet, right?

- Chris Hayes

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Running, Powerful, Favors, Powerful Person

If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

- Robert Greene

topic: Powerful, Judging, People, Powerful Person

If you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, No, you do not. Whether you need a powerful person who believes in concentrating power, No, you do not. If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Running, Powerful, Believe, Democratic Values, Powerful Person

As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.

- Ann Druyan

topic: Powerful, Lying, Technology, Powerful Person

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

- Emmet Fox

topic: Love, Inspiring, Soulmate, Powerful Love, Powerful Person

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

- Norman Vincent Peale

source: Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.43, Open Road Media

topic: Inspirational, Powerful, Persons, Get Ahead, Powerful Person

I don't think of myself as a powerful person,

- Anna Wintour

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Persons, Powerful Person

The fascinating thing about Game of Thrones is that none of the badasses are just badasses, and none of the wimps are just wimps. A coward will surprise you with courage, and a very powerful person will blindside you with weakness, and the most evil person is capable of the most compassionate moment.

- Pedro Pascal

topic: Powerful, Badass, Games, Powerful Person

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

- Gloria Allred

topic: Powerful, Rich, Helpers, Powerful Person

If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

- Tony Benn

source: Members in the Commons Hansard Debates, publications.parliament.uk. March 22, 2001.

topic: Powerful, Exercise, People, Interest Groups, Powerful Person

This microphone is the key to the universe. When you have this in your hands, you are the most powerful person in the whole world, let's get!.

- Hayley Williams

topic: Powerful, Keys, Hands, Powerful Person

Oprah Winfrey just announced that she's planning to attend Barack Obama's inauguration. Oprah says she's very excited to see Obama become the second-most powerful person in the world.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Powerful, World, Planning, Powerful Person

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

source: Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Penguin

topic: Wisdom, Children, Powerful, Powerful Person

The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Powerful, Vision, World, Powerful Person

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

- Theodor Adorno

source: Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.128, Verso

topic: Powerful, Names, Pockets, Powerful Person