Quotes About Authority

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

current research is showing that true leaders enjoy using their power and are comfortable with it - so comfortable, in fact, that they don't mind sharing that control when it is appropriate to do so.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.