Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

I like to be very much in control.

It is easy to rule over the good.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

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

Politics is activity in relation to power.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

I like control.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

I like to be in control of things.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

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

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.