Top 100 Be King Quotes
#1. Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.
Andrew Carnegie
#2. Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
Bruce Springsteen
#3. He may be King Redrought Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Bear of the North, Defender of the Realm, Descendent of Thor, but to Thirrin he was just Dad, a man with a fondness for cats, a taste for comfy slippers and a huge laugh that could dent pewter at fifty paces.
Stuart Hill
#4. Worse than getting kicked out of your slot to go on to a winning season is to lead during a losing one. Nobody wants to be king of the losers.
A.D. Aliwat
#5. His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's like to be king. In reality there are a lot of things that you do and people you influence that other people don't see and that impact is there for the city.
Jeri Ryan
#6. All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty ... Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.
Prince William
#8. In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind
but he must get there first.
John Steinbeck
#9. If wishes were horses, paupers would ride. If the queen had balls, she'd be king. If I didn't have to WORK, I'd write stories all day.
Suki Michelle
#10. We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
Helen Thomas
#11. Why can't any common fuck be king?
David Vann
#12. I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#13. The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.
Maurice Jarre
#14. Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle.
Muhammad Ali
#15. Though nobleman, he can never be king. Though cowherd, he can always lead.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#16. One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim."
"For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?
Megan Whalen Turner
#17. I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.
Bob Hope
#18. Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.
John Lennon
#19. The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties
that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.
Angela Carter
#20. He who discovers the heart of Arcrea and joins the hands of the seven regions will be king.
Nicole Sager
#21. So you wish me to forget that you are a sheikh and a prince and a crown prince and soon to be King? That is a lot to forget.
Marguerite Kaye
#22. Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
Luigi Pirandello
#23. Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?
Max Lucado
#24. There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
Thomas A Kempis
#25. Son
they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.
Kurt Vonnegut
#26. In typical circumstances, to have children who won't care for you in your dotage is to be King Lear. Disability changes the reciprocity equation.
Andrew Solomon
#27. as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law OUGHT to be King; and there ought to be no other. But
Thomas Paine
#30. And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.
James Clavell
#31. If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.
Rickson Gracie
#32. It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.
Anthony Hope
#33. The earth beneath your feet does not care you will be king. Nor the water in your cup. Nor the air you breathe. You must speak to them as equal, or even better, as supplicant.
V.E Schwab
#34. I do think Bezos has an insatiable desire to be King Bezos," Musk said. "He has a relentless work ethic and wants to kill everything in e-commerce. But he's not the most fun guy, honestly."*
Ashlee Vance
#35. And on my conscience," he said, "I will for ever bear the weight of all those men who died in a hopeless cause. Two thousand against five thousand? How can 1 justify leading so few against so many?"
"You know how."
"So I can be king?"
"So that we are not slaves in our own land," I said.
Bernard Cornwell
#36. The Thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor.
William Shakespeare
#37. Every man wishes to be king. Her hair snapped about her, buzzing.
Kay Kenyon
#38. Everyone wants to be king," said Vortalis. "Not me," said Holland. "Well, then you're either a liar or a fool.
V.E Schwab
#39. From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king ...
Reforge the sword.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#40. Soon, I will be 'King of all Hollywoodland.'
Joss Whedon
#41. He holds the sword!' shouted Merlin. 'And that has not changed. Whoever would be king must first take the sword from Arthur's hand. For I tell you truly, none among you will be king without it!
Stephen R. Lawhead
#42. There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.
Louis Armstrong
#43. His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign
For she would be Queen of Lumatere.
But he would be king to her.
Melina Marchetta
#44. The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.
Lysander Spooner
#45. The king killed his brother, who was actually king, so that he could be king. Then the dead king's wife and baby disappeared, on account the baby would've been king, so the brother probably killed them, too. They do that kind of thing all the time, kings do. They can kill anybody they don't like.
Sage Blackwood
#46. They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.
Jack Cade
#47. Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.
Thomas Paine
#48. You wouldn't want to be king of my country," I said.
"Why is that?"
"Well, you're rather fat. I doubt you'd fit onto my throne.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#51. It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.
Gregg Popovich
#52. I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.
Homer
#53. If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. I will be king. Your country needs me. I'm gonna bring out the best in Wakanda. And what is best in Wakanda is that fantastic pile of vibranium. I'm gonna make 'em love me, baby.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#55. Maybe if Mufasa was nice to Scar and told Scar he could be king on weekends then Scar wouldn't have killed him.
Quil Carter
#56. All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.
Camille Paglia
#57. And me? Well, I don't aspire to be king. That's just like being a highly paid pawn. I'm a bishop, a vizier. I'm always behind the scenes pulling the strings.
Charlie Human
#59. Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.
Michael Bloomberg
#60. Don't you see, boy? This is why you shouldn't be king. Leave the job to men who understand their own corruption; don't let it destroy you.
Brandon Sanderson
#61. I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.
Mark Helprin
#62. the law clearly stated that a man with a physical defect could not be king.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#63. One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#64. To be king means to accept that others will pay the price of your failures
and even your successes.
Brent Weeks
#65. The goblins have been after me ever since I helped the Coven drive them out of Essex. (They were gobbling up drunk people in club bathrooms, and the Mage was worried about losing regional slang.) I think the goblin who successfully offs me gets to be king.
Rainbow Rowell
#66. To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#67. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?
William Steig
#68. He loves to be the center of attention. I hate it. He is the king of the school. I do not want to be the queen. I
Kasie West
#69. I knew now: there would be no damnation that I did not forge for myself, and no fall so great that it could be without hope.
M. King
#70. I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.
Richard King
#71. But the one thing that totally drew me in was his eyes. They were green but it wasn't the color that I was fascinated by, but something inside them made me feel like I didn't want to look away.
Something seemed to be pulling me toward
him.
Jennifer Whitfield
#72. [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#73. I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.
Stephen King
#74. King Cygnus dozed in his chair, and a dark shadow curled up in the window seat. That dark shadow happened to have a name, which happened to be Darcy; but nobody really notices dark shadows, even named ones. They have a habit of lurking about. People learn to ignore them after a while.
Emma Clifton
#75. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.
Thomas More
#76. I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, people will be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#77. The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
Dennis C. Blair
#78. By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.
Stephen King
#79. You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won't be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.
Ben E. King
#80. Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam.
Stephen King
#81. The one who reigns must die,
At the hands of she born last,
And the last will make the first,
When the bastard twins are one,
And blessed be the newborn King,
For Charyn will be barren no more.
Melina Marchetta
#82. I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don King
#83. In God's kingdom, humans get to reflect God at last into the world, in the way they were meant to. They become more fully what humans were meant to be. That is how God becomes king.
N. T. Wright
#84. I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.
Imelda May
#85. My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.
Lynn Coady
#87. Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? ... Sometimes he makes us live.
Stephen King
#88. If Polity forces were to turn up here, then your king would have to respond, by which time the turd trajectory would be fanwards.
Neal Asher
#89. got to be regular if you want to be happy,
Stephen King
#90. Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
George R R Martin
#91. On another occasion he toasted to the king's "long life," only to be questioned by his host, the king's son and heir, "Since when have you been so anxious about my parent's health?" Wilkes smiled and said, "Since I had the pleasure of your Royal Highness's acquaintance.
Mike Lee
#92. My father, my father, and dost thou not hear
The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?
'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;
Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#93. She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe
Stephen King
#94. If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior high, Soups old buddy, that gadget would be booked up right into the twenty-third century.
Stephen King
#95. What are the differences between me and you, I stand up and continue you just stay down and don't move and you think that nobody will touch. But when you are down, you always easy to be attacked - You will find down "IT" :D :D
Deyth Banger
#96. We're leaving this Hell of a mess before long and we're going to go to our Country and our City to be with our King!
David Berg
#98. Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
Miguel De Cervantes
#100. I want to be the joint that she smokes so that we can finally talk about
everything without having to use words, because I will be a drug in her brain.
A.S. King
