Famous Quotes

"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

Sydney J. Harris 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 Sydney J. Harris

• "Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'"

• "If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

• "The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."

• "Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."

• "The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through."