Famous Quotes

"How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?"

Francois Rabelais 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 Francois Rabelais

• "Science without conscience is the death of the soul."

• "To good and true love fear is forever affixed."

• "I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him."

• "If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks."

• "Misery is the company of lawsuits."