Famous Quotes

"O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!"

Samuel Richardson 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 Samuel Richardson

• "The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal."

• "If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it."

• "Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."

• "Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

• "As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."