The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. —Baltasar Gracián More about this quote Tags: power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! —Amy Tan More about this quote Tags: power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. —A. Bartlett Giamatti More about this quote Tags: power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. —Plato More about this quote Tags: poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. —Kin Hubbard More about this quote Tags: poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. —Juvenal More about this quote Tags: poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. —J. K. Rowling More about this quote Tags: poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools. —J. K. Rowling More about this quote Tags: poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. —Horace More about this quote Tags: poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. —Antiphanes More about this quote Tags: poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: possessions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: possessions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email