Character Quote by Lord Chesterfield

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

— Lyman Bryson

No power in the universe can withhold anyone from anything he really deserve

— Anonymous

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

— Morgan Llywelyn

Man cannot choose his duties.

— George Eliot

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

— Swami Vivekananda

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

— Jane Austen

Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.

— Alfred Kazin

He can do most who has most power.

— Plautus

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

— Marcus Aurelius

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes…

— Henry George

No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of…

— C. Wright Mills

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

— Abraham Lincoln