Cato the Elder
Politician, Orator
"The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself."
Rulers quotes
Rulers
21 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aristotle
Philosopher
"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
Sun Myung Moon
Religious Leader
"Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler."
Laozi
Philosopher
"Stillness is the ruler of haste."
Plato
Philosopher
"States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers."
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"Convention is the ruler of all."
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"A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel."
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"The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people."
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"The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects."
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"We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers."
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