Famous Quotes

"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have."

Oprah Winfrey 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 Oprah Winfrey

• "I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."

• "Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."

• "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

• "As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."

• "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."