All things Quote by David Livingstone

The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

— Anonymous

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

— Cardinal Richelieu

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his…

— Calvin Coolidge

Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness…

— Edgar Guest

There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area…

— Anonymous

A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising his power…

— Michel Foucault

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

— Jonathan Swift

“Earthly rule, therefore, has been appointed by God for the benefit of nations, and not by the devil, who is never at rest at…

— The Church Fathers

They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in…

— Jonathan Mayhew