Kings Quotes

• Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Beauty

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole. Chapter "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes", 1994.

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• Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Long, Arms

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Doe, Decay

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• It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

  Chanakya

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• It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jobs, Whining, Carrie

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• The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

  Plutarch

  Crowns, Sometimes, Headache

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• If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.

  Chanakya

  Energetic, Subjects, Ifs

  "Arthashastra" by Kautilya, translated by R. Shamasastry, Book I, (Ch. 19), 1915.

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• Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Hero, Believe In Yourself, Waiting

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• The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

  Seneca the Elder

  People, Politics, Emptiness

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• I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Beggar

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

  T.A. Barron

  Dream, Deeds, Poet

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• Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hallucinations, Rebellious, Born

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.304, e-artnow

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

  John Dryden

  Fighting, Empires, Applause

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• There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Diversity, Advice

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

  Seneca the Younger

  Fear, Desire, Fear Nothing

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• It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the Way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the' tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Teacher, Men, Giving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 78), 1895.

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• The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

  Dian Fossey

  Wildlife, Adults, Males

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Difficult

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• Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings.
  [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.]

  Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon

  Audacity, Roi, Fit

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• He that can work is born to be king of something.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Birth, Born

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Needs, Want

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• The king's name is a tower of strength.

  William Shakespeare

  Strength, Names, Towers

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 12

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• Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hope, Cat, Hopeful

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1975, Delphi Classics

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