Famous Quotes

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle 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 Aristotle

• "Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."

• "Education is the best provision for old age."

• "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

• "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

• "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."