As entrepreneurs, we all need a little inspiration from time to time. That’s why I’ve compiled a list of powerful quotes that will help motivate you as you work to achieve your business goals.

The best powerful quotes

1. Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see. — Shannon L. Alder

2. With sad music, or music that’s perceived as sad, there’s a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me. — J. Tillman

3. Anyone can be strong — but not everyone can be powerful…..it’s u who has to decide which one u want to be…..

4. The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man. — Thomas Jefferson

5. I want to hate you, to loathe you, to detest you, but for all my attempts, the need to touch you is ten times more powerful. — Nely Cab, Fruit of Misfortune

6. Self–remembrance, awareness of ‘I am’ ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

7. We’re finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids]. — Nancy Lublin

8. Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men. — Nawal El Saadawi

9. You’ll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them. — Mduduzi Risimati Mbiza

10. Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities. — Saint Augustine

11. God has more powerful aways to show Himself than any human postulate.And yet, a postulate is the highest form of prayer. — Robin Sacredfire

12. No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers. — Ronald Reagan

13. Film is such a powerful medium. It’s like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self–censor. — Peter Jackson

14. Love and trust are so powerful. They can literally change the fate of a person. — Tasha Hoggatt

15. My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love. — Rick Riordan

16. Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter–century. — Mike Ferguson

17. We’re finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids]. — Nancy Lublin

18. And you yourself are recognizing that you are in ‘relationship with a beautiful and powerful woman and we both definitely don’t want to surrender to each other’. — Rajneesh

19. Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul! — Walter Scott

20. Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul. — Ruth Frances Long, The Treachery of Beautiful Things

21. The power of the gospel lies[…] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God’s new world has begun. — N. T. Wright

22. There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality. — Tony Robbins

23. Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were. — Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

24. Take care–there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination. — Michael Chabon

25. Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. — Philip G. Zimbardo

26. Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation. — Sunday Adelaja

27. You’ll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them. — Mduduzi Risimati Mbiza

28. The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think…and the more ideas you will invite into your mind. — Wilfred Funk

29. And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it’s not used enough, at least not in the U.S. — Michael Moore

30. Holy gods. He’d frozen the whole damn lake. He was THAT powerful? — Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

31. The most powerful forces in the universe are infinite. Love, imagination, intuition, stillness. Then why should we define our soul? — Matthew Donnelly

32. I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can’t just sit back and let other people define our existence. — Spike Lee

33. Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them. — Nipsey Hussle

34. Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy. — Ozzy Osbourne

35. History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. — Noam Chomsky

36. Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional ‘storms’. — Tony Robbins

37. Powerful messages that defend life and celebrate true heroines can’t be contained, not even by the best efforts of some of the most powerful liberals on the planet. — Paula White

38. We have to believe that our prayers, if pure and powerful can transform any catastrophic situation, regardless of its magnitude. — Pooja Ruprell

39. Paradise is near to you when you are powerful — hell is nearer when you are weaker

40. Beautiful. Worthy of the highest love. Powerful and perfect. Beautiful is my daughter. — Rachelle Dekker, The Choosing

41. Vulnerability supported by love is perhaps the most powerful catalyst for real connection. — Scott Stabile

42. The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities–powerful new tools like African fractals–and then just get out of the way. — Ron Eglash

43. I’m a Black woman. Empowered, powerful, and greatness. — Stephanie Lahart

44. Powerful words harmonize heart and mind as if a symphony. — Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

45. What matters is what happens among the powerful. — Noam Chomsky

46. When the individual has a lot of money to spend. individualism becomes a powerful. and profitable, worldview. — Martin E.P. Seligman

47. To look powerful is to be powerful. — Victoria Aveyard

48. God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful. — Matt Chandler

49. Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

50. One thing that makes aikido is so powerful, it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight. — Toba Beta

Conclusion

We hope this selection of powerful quotes has inspired you to take on life with confidence and determination. Remember that you have the potential to be anything you want to be and to do anything you set your mind to. Embrace the power within, and you will be unstoppable!