Famous Quotes

"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."

William Hazlitt 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 William Hazlitt

• "To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

• "Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal."

• "Rules and models destroy genius and art."

• "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

• "Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."