Reign quotes
161 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure."
"For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first."
"For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe."
"Mission is both the announcement and the demonstration of the reign of God through Christ."
"Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind."
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"Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate."
"Discipleship is rooted in a deep belief in the universal reign of God through Christ. To be a disciple is to acknowledge that reign and to embrace the lifelong journey of submitting more and more of every aspect of your life to His good, just, and peaceable reign, as well as alerting others to God's kingship by both word and deed."
"Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns."
"The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest."
"Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness."
"The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting."
"To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign."
"Where love reigns, there's no need for laws."
"Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other."
"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."
"Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom."
"And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?"
"The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act."
"What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind."
"We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself."
"Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting."
"To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet."
"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
"Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke."
