Famous Quotes

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit."

Jonathan Swift 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 Jonathan Swift

• "No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."

• "Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

• "Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."

• "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder."

• "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."