Famous Quotes

"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 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 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

• "Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."

• "A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."

• "It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure."

• "I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."

• "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."