Best leader & authority Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.”

“In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one knows that his work depends on that of his predecessors and colleagues, and that it can only reach its fruition through the work of his successors. In science men collaborate not because they are forced to by superior authority or because they blindly follow some chosen leader, but because they realize that only in this willing collaboration can each man find his goal.”

“Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.”

Mean Hands Used Leader Authority Creating Conscious Instruments Active Cease Cures Collectives Passive Organisation

Book:Errico Malatesta: his life & ideas

Source: Errico Malatesta: his life & ideas

“A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness finds authority by being under authority finds direction by laying down his plans finds vision by seeing the needs of others finds credibility by being an example finds loyalty by expressing compassion finds honor by being faithful finds greatness by being a servant”

“Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and disobedience to the State has, over and over again, happened throughout history. It is time again to cry out against our 'leaders,' to question (since it is not for us to say that they are evil) whether or not they are sane.”

People States Evil Voice Leader Happened Cry Authority Conscience Obedience Sane Disobedience Civil Disobedience Obedience To God

Author:Dorothy Day

“The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.”

Way Hard Political Religious Leader Doubt Movement Position Authority Casts Revolutionary Rising Islamic Regimes Academic Tides Competence Khomeini

Author:Yousef Saanei

“there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.”

Humans Sometimes Whole Spirit Quality Leader Break Minutes Discipline Authority Mass Train Instinct Peaceful Revolutionary Beast Disorder Mentality Herds Revolt Camels Owing Caravans

Author:Mildred Cable

“We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But to organize ourselves in such a way that means correspond to the ends, and to organize ourselves in such a way as to create kind of human relationship that should exist in future society. That would mean to organize ourselves without centralize authority, without charismatic leader, in a way that represents in miniature the ideal of the future egalitarian society.”

“Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins.... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.”

Wanted Spiritual Christ Sin Leader Authority Threat Jew Scary Expected Rulers Rescue Spiritual Leader

Author:Paul Weyrich

“Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.”

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“If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.”

Ifs Leader Authority Delegates

Author:Craig Groeschel

“A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.”

Done Able Natural Leader Authority Rely Formal Things Done Whips

Author:Gary Hamel

“Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.”

People Knows May Choices Company Leader Authority Organization

Author:Simon Sinek

“Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.”

Self Use Leader Willing Authority Collectives Collective Good

Author:Noel Tichy

“A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline - who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices - do not qualify to lead.”

Persons Self Christian Turns Leadership Leader Taken Sacrifice Discipline Authority Rebel Self Discipline Scorn Rigor Shirk Spiritual Leadership

Book:Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

“Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.”

Leader Honest Authority Dialogue Display Empowered Humanness

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority.”

Way Government President Leader Exercise Authority Competing Iranian Analysts American Government Opaque

Author:Ali Khamenei

“Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.”

Matter Leader Teach Influence Inspire Authority True Leader

Author:Michael Josephson

“Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.”

People Needs Causes Church Leader Position Authority Tasks Primaries Preaching

Book:Preaching and Preachers

Source: Preaching and Preachers

“Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.”

Kind Mean Persons Past Given Leader Authority Being A Leader

Author:James Altucher

“A leader is only able to lead others because he disciplines himself. The person who does not know how to bow to discipline imposed from without, who does not know how to obey, will not make a good leader-nor will the one who has not learned to impose discipline within his own life. Those who scorn scripturally or legally constituted authority, or rebel against it, rarely qualify for high leadership positions.”

Knows Persons Doe Able Leader Know How Position Discipline Authority Rebel Bows Scorn Good Leader

Author:J. Oswald Sanders

“Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003, Hussein and his regime were brought down, we declared "Mission Accomplished" and celebrated victory . . . and chaos erupted. We did not assert control and authority over the country, especially Baghdad. We did not bring with us the capacity to impose our will. We did not take charge. And Iraq did not in a few weeks magically transform itself into a stable nation with democratic leaders. Instead a raging insurgency engulfed the country.”

“The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Experience, dialogue, feelings, and conversations are equated with Scripture while certitude, authority, and doctrine are to be eschewed! No doctrines are to be absolute and truth or doctrine must be considered only with personal experiences, traditions, historical leaders, etc. The Bible is not an answer book.”

Book Feelings Answers Leader Source Conversation Authority Tradition Absolutes Historical Scripture Doctrine Dialogue Etc Accurate Personal Experiences Certitude

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.”

Needs Giving May Father Leader Comfort Authority Concepts Absolutes Notion Grounded Daddy Those In Need

Book:Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

“Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.”

Knows Mind Wells Church Leader One Day Essentials Authority Direct Claims Atheist Confused Catholicism Pillars Puritan Infallibility God Speaking

Author:Dave Foley

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