Facebook share Tweet This Email this
May these quotes about Govern inspire and motivate you.
No man is good enough to govern another man
without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
Related topics: Government Political
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have no fear that the result of our experiment
will be that men may be trusted to
govern themselves without a master.
- Thomas Jefferson
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.
Do not overdo it.
- Lao Tzu
Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.
Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
There is an orderliness in the universe,
there is an unalterable law governing everything
and every being that exists or lives.
It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern
the conduct of living beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
That government is best which governs the least,
because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
In all things and in all ways,
choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
It bears repeating that even those things
which seem out of reach of our choice
are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
- Edward Snowden
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe
that had the lion's heart.
I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
- Winston Churchill
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Thank you for visiting: Govern Quotes to Inspire and Motivate.
Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Get a Daily Motivational Quote each day by email. (free)
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and
other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.
You may read about our disclaimer, privacy policy, terms of use, participation in affiliate programs, copyright policy, and more.