King Quotes

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
Dalai Lama

Humanity, Leader, Religious

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
Dalai Lama

Leader, Rule, Modern

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

Among, Slave, Ancestors

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya

Fool, Sleep, Small

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot

Free, Last, Until

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace, Home, Happiest

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
Mitch Hedberg

Sorry, Here, Making

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett Marden

Courage, Respect, Failure

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
Marcus Garvey

Africa, Crowned

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Abraham Maslow

Failure, Live, Sense

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Ambrose Bierce

Great, Grease, Slippery

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich

Father, Understand, Either

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
Morgan Freeman

Black, Hero, American

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.
Hillary Clinton

Judge, Career, After

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.
Billy Graham

Help, Problem, Poor

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Saint Augustine

Evil, Free, Though

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot

Life, Music, Death

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
Dwight L. Moody

Death, May, Jesus

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Success, Politics

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
David Cameron

Leadership, Equality, Courage

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
Charles R. Swindoll

Earth, Heaven, Summons

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch

Two, Three, Number

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Life, Love, Death

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton

Himself, Within, Rules

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
Elizabeth I

Heart, Woman, Body

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Horatio Nelson

Hate, Enemy, Opinion

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. Forster

Story, Grief, Died

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Christmas, Alone, Perfect

By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Heart, Blood, Clown

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