Famous Quotes

"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."

Toni Morrison 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 Toni Morrison

• "You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone."

• "Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."

• "At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."

• "There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people."

• "Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."