Famous Quotes

"Character is power."

Booker T. Washington 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

• "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

  Thomas Jefferson on Power

More quotes by Booker T. Washington

• "Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

• "If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams."

• "At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."

• "Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

• "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."