Quotes About Authority

The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

The good NCO has never been short in confidence, either to perform the mission or to inform the superior that he or she was interfering with traditional NCO business.

Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Presence is a result of confidence. Presence... when we see it we feel it.

Being a slave to a fellow human being, many times, starts with giving his opinion more weight than you should.

If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!