Famous Quotes

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

William Wordsworth 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 Wordsworth

• "The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind."

• "But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave."

• "Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."

• "The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."

• "That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."