Famous Quotes

"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."

Stendhal 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 Stendhal

• "This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."

• "The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."

• "The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."

• "Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."

• "Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one."