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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.


Thomas a Kempis

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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly
THOMAS KEMPIS He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
ARISTOTLE Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 It is no great matter to...
DAVID KIRK Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Every man naturally desir...
THOMAS À KEMPIS There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
WILLIAM EDWARD FORSTER There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
WILLIAM EDWARD FORSTER He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
ARISTOTLE Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as y...
THOMAS A KEMPIS He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
WILLIAM LAW He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her-...
BOOTH TARKINGTON He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her ...
BOOTH TARKINGTON Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 It is no great matter to...
THOMAS À KEMPIS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
CARL R. ROGERS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change
CARL ROGERS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.
CARL R. ROGERS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
CARL ROGERS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
CARL ROGERS The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change
CARL ROGERS It's a subpoena. He has to obey,
RODNEY MELVILLE If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping...
ARTHUR BALFOUR He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping...
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to r...
SPARKY ANDERSON The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI He who refuses to obey cannot command.
KENYAN PROVERB The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.
JULES VERNE You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.
REBECCA MURPHY Drive safe. Obey the speed limit signs. We do all we can to keep it safe ? they should try to make i...
JOHN CASEY My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.
JOHN BOSWELL Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained
JOHN POWELL The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge tha...
MICHEAL RIVERS He who refuses to obey cannot command. - Kikuyu, Kenya
AFRICAN PROVERB Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Be not angry that you c...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a wa...
MOHAMED ELBARADEI He who knows how to obey knows how to command.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned a...
A. R. AMMONS He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
SHANNON L. ALDER The coward only threatens when he is safe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who comm...
DENIS DIDEROT Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law
SOPHOCLES Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
JEAN ANOUILH Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden...
HENRY ADAMS He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He is an urban resident, he had no contact with farms or any poultry from the villages. His only exp...
YORK CHOW Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Success is a prize given to those who try and fail willingly.
JEFFREY BRYANT He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. H...
LAO-TSE Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Truth, not eloquence, is...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 When we are troubled wi...
THOMAS À KEMPIS With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return.
LAINI TAYLOR I've learned...that when the rubber meets the road...only God gat your back! I'm practicing safe dri...
DEYON ANTEKO PITTER There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
THOMAS A. EDISON He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of...
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
LAO TZU Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.
ANNE BISHOP The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who c...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS The advantage of the one who did not envisioned himself a ruler of men: he can look back without reg...
MARIANA FULGER Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to ...
EDWIN MARKHAM Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century The man who has never had religion befor...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read; he will be the man who has not learned...
ALVIN TOFFLER If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable...
C.J. SANSOM Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has lear...
ELLEN TERRY Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He...
TIMOTHY DWIGHT The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche vic...
DAN JENKINS Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover reg...
DALLAS WILLARD Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite...
C.S. LEWIS The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and chang...
MICHELLE CASTO While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Thy daugh...
BIBLE Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old
BURMESE PROVERB A poor man who marries a rich woman is not his wife, but a ruler.
VIKRANT PARSAI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left al...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Even if he is more likely to be a Rehnquist than a Thomas, the downside of him being a Thomas outwei...
CHARLES SCHUMER If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
C.S. LEWIS That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.
HITOPADESA I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he w...
RICHARD FOSTER They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not ever...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler w...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He ha...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
VIRGIL The only safe thing is to take a chance.
MIKE NICHOLS He (Mahathir) expects the public to obey laws including restrictions against gatherings, but he hims...
ANWAR IBRAHIM A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost h...
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest ...
J.I. PACKER In short, if youth is not quite right in its opinions, there is a strong probability that age is not...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

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THOMAS à KEMPIS Wherever you go, there you are.
THOMAS à KEMPIS At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
THOMAS à KEMPIS A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
THOMAS à KEMPIS A lowly knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than the deep searching of a man’s learnings. N...
THOMAS à KEMPIS It is vanity, too, to covet honours, and to lift up ourselves on high...It is vanity, to love that w...
THOMAS à KEMPIS There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of G...
THOMAS à KEMPIS The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere. No matter where you may go, you can...
THOMAS à KEMPIS Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. I...
THOMAS à KEMPIS If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and un...
THOMAS à KEMPIS Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
THOMAS à KEMPIS For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardl...
THOMAS à KEMPIS No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth t...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord True it is that every man willingly foll...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Be not angry that you c...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at th...
THOMAS À KEMPIS The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he unders...
THOMAS À KEMPIS It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be rea...
THOMAS À KEMPIS At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
THOMAS À KEMPIS He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, beca...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of the Holy Cross When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is g...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; somet...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matter...
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