Famous Quotes

"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart."

Eric Hoffer 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 Eric Hoffer

• "It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

• "Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."

• "The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."

• "The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."

• "The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."