Famous Quotes

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

Honore de Balzac 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 Honore de Balzac

• "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."

• "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."

• "If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

• "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless."

• "The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."