Ruler Quotes
248 quotes by 197 authors
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No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If…
— Sun Tzu
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The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
— Sun Tzu
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Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of…
— Justin Martyr
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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when…
— Aleister Crowley
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O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts…
— William Cowper
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The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may…
— Unknown Author
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The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its…
— William Thomas Walsh
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
— Eric Temple Bell
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This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is…
— Avicenna
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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
— Ann Landers
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The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.
— Laozi
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For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course…
— Frederick Soddy
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The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his…
— Clarence Darrow
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The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.
— Antoine Rivarol
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There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world.…
— David Rockefeller
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Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness,…
— Laurence Housman
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It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before…
— Adolf Hitler
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he…
— Dante Alighieri
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
— William Cowper
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