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Quotes About Dominion

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
~ Publilius Syrus
Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.
~ Myles Munroe
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
~ Francois Rabelais
more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.
~ Virginia Woolf
See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.
~ Jennifer Egan
The passion for proselytizing and the passion for world dominion are both perhaps symptoms of some serious deficiency at the center.
~ Eric Hoffer
The mind is the master and the body is the servant.
~ Amber Tamblyn
QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate Unless we dare The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.
~ Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little thing; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.
~ Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.
~ Amelia Earhart
The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
that one thing I have control over? That shit is mine.
~ Amy Lane
The dominant Jewish idea at the time (and subsequently) is that the Messiah brings about the messianic age, a time when death no longer has dominion, when there is a general resurrection of the dead, a final judgment, the return of exiles to their homeland, peace on earth.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.
~ Andrew Carnegie
A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Alexander's mere name and the fame of his feats raised rulers and realms across virtually the whole world. And those who kept control of even the slightest slice of his huge heritage were reckoned most renowned.
~ Andrew Chugg
The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.
~ James Buchan
As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
~ David Stras
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
~ John Dryden
When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
~ Will Durant
And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
~ Rene Descartes
You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.
~ Richard Bach