Famous Quotes

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

Plutarch 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 Plutarch

• "The wildest colts make the best horses."

• "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

• "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better."

• "Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause."

• "Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."