Ruling Quotes

No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to change. Five unelected lawyers overruled 320 million Americans.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

Many have ruled well who could not perhaps define a Commonwealth.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Do you think it’s wise, darling? You know you’ve got to rule this afternoon.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

The most important thing Spartans must learn is to know how to govern, and to be governed

It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis within that legal concept. In the Church the elder is an office-bearer. But both the preaching elders and the ruling elders are "ministers," and the word "minister" is a personal relationship, it does not speak of dominance. There is to be order in the Church, but the preaching elder or the ruling elder is to be a minister, with a loving personal relationship with those who are before him, even when they are wrong and need admonition.