Powerful person Quote by Senoraroy

“What is governing to a man that can rule himself? If he cannot rule himself, how shall he rule others?”

— Confucius

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

— Seneca the Younger

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

— Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

— Francois Rabelais

“A general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that…

— W.K. Marriott

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

“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

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage…

— Karl Popper

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

— Anonymous

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from…

— Thomas Jefferson

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to…

— Danny Silk