Famous Quotes

"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."

Catherine the Great on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Catherine the Great

• "I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."

• "I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster."

• "I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his."

• "A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."

• "In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."