Quotes on Powerful

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief; because your belief projects what you think God ought to be, what you think ought to be true. If you believe God is love, God is good, God is this or that, your very belief prevents you from understanding what is God, what is true.

Then they told me about the call from home and that they were taking the threats seriously. I don't know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That's why I have problems with our Pashtunwali code. We are supposed to take revenge for wrongs done to us, but where does that end? If a man in one family is killed or hurt by another man, revenge must be exacted to restore nang (honor).

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

I've always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I'd imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump out and shoot me on those steps. I wondered what I would do. Maybe I'd take off my shoes and hit him, but then I'd think if I did that there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, 'OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I'm not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school.'

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

Where focus goes, energy flows.

It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.

The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!

Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example.

New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live.

Everyone on this planet has spirit within them as an all powerful force for good.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.