Famous Quotes

"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "All diseases run into one, old age."

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

• "Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."

• "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."

• "Every artist was first an amateur."