Famous Quotes

"There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords."

John Muir 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 John Muir

• "Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you."

• "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

• "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

• "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools."

• "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."