Famous Quotes

"In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits."

Robert Hall 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 Robert Hall

• "In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."

• "A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."

• "Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy."

• "Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history."

• "We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days."