A Quote by Francois Rabelais

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Francois Rabelais

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Even Govern How Myself Others

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Francois Rabelais
French - Priest
1493 - April 9, 1553

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

Cormac McCarthy

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Miguel de Cervantes

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

Benjamin Franklin

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

Michel de Montaigne

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Pope Francis

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.