Authority Quotes
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Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
— Simon Sinek
The sword has spoke the truth - in authority and wisdom - only the sword O Damascus is certain!
— Nizar Qabbani
I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
— John Cusack
Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant's desire to murder the father and possess the mother.
— Donald O'Donovan
We need a regime change in this country ... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
— Jesse Jackson
Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.
— Patrick Lencioni
If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.
— Benjamin Constant
When you find the church you're supposed to be in, you will recognize the pastor's voice as an important spiritual authority in your life.
— Stormie O'martian
We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.
— Sonny Landham
Our lives are structured around power symbols: money, authority, title, beauty, security.
— Caroline Myss
Genghis had once told him he should never give an order they would not obey. He should never let them see the limits of his authority. The
— Conn Iggulden
We act not out of our own authority but from an accompanied place.
— Ben Pink Dandelion
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
— William Butler Yeats
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.
— Rose Wilder Lane
If you want people to recognize your authority, serve them first.
— Moroaswi Tumiso Victor
To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.
— Justin Buzzard
The strong will always rule the weak.
— A.J. Darkholme
Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable.
— Dennis Prager
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
— Stephen Covey
Instead of rebelling against the idea of authority, you honor your own inner authority, along with others' wisdom that resonates with you.
— Lisa Marie Selow
It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said.
— Marty Rubin
Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The majority of men ... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and ... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
— Seneca The Younger
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
— Chris Hayes
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
— Morris Raphael Cohen
Aren't you glad I have no respect for your authority?
— Catherine Doyle
Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.
— Tavis Smiley
Authority is conferred by position, not character.
— Mason Cooley
It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.
— Jefferson Smith
When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.
— Calvin Miller
We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.
— Barbara Jordan
Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.
— Jack Campbell
The best boss is the one who bosses the least.
— Ralph Moody
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
— Joseph Addison
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
— Nadine Gordimer
In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.
— Virginia Postrel
I believe in the magic and authority of words.
— Rene Char
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
— Adrienne Rich
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.
— Brand Blanshard
true authority came from sharing the hard work, not attempting to place oneself above it.
— John Flanagan
Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.
— Garrison Keillor
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.
— Marquis De Lafayette
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
— Ambrose Bierce
A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority.
— Timothy Snyder
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
— Anthony Trollope
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
— Marie De France
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
— Erich Fromm
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my dayuntil I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions. — Sigmund Freud
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
— John Ruskin
Experience is the highest authority.
— Carl Rogers
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him
— Sunday Adelaja
When the people with authority don't have to answer to citizens of the galaxy, the result is tyranny.
— Claudia Gray
If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
— William A. Dembski
Believers infiltrate the enemy's territory with knowledge and power.
— Sherry K. White
Management has authority only as long as it performs.
— Peter Drucker
The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.
— Vannoccio Biringuccio
Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace
— Aaron Sorkin
Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.
— James Hunter
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
— Stendhal
To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.
— Mark Twain
True authority is not overcome by greater numbers.
— Frank Carlyle
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.
— James Cromwell
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.
— Stephen Graham
It (Lewinskygate) has ... compromised his moral authority
— Joe Lieberman
Encourage your child to think for himself, disagree, and talk about his feelings while accepting your authority.
— Henry Cloud
The authority that God has given you over Satan is ample, wide-ranging, thorough, all embracing
— Pedro Okoro
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
