Powerful Quotes

Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.

Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear.

No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Habits are powerful but we have the power to create them.

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.