Best leadership & authority Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.”

People Ifs Men Trying Light Realizing Leadership Sky Figures Authority Blue Spite Grants Adversaries Another Man Saying No Authority Figures Light Blue

Author:Criss Jami

“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”

Ifs Inspirational Leadership Power Authority Command Manage Cheerfulness

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.”

Trying Joy Leadership Differences Responsibility Democracy Authority Sacred Equality Priorities Recognition Obedience Innate Mystic

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?”

Law Leadership Example Authority Obedience

Book:Law and Order

Source: Law and Order

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

Giving Leadership Influence Authority

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.”

Leadership Influence Position Authority

Author:Johnny Hunt

“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

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”

Opportunity Leadership Power Politician Authority Greed Privilege Materialism Satisfying Improving Lives Of Others Kenya

Author:Mwai Kibaki

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

People Long Motivational Leadership Business Policy Authority Decided Management Surround Interfere Surround Yourself Delegates Surround Yourself With People Delegation Top Management Surround Yourself With Good People Surround Yourself With Positive People

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Born Natural Leadership Leader Know How Authority Respect Bows Respectful Be Respectful Respect Me Born Leaders

Author:Tupac Shakur

“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”

People Should Enjoy Leadership Authority Meetings Live Life Teamwork Committees Miscellaneous Funny Leadership

Book:Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“The man whose authority is recent is always stern.”

Men Leadership Power Authority

Author:Aeschylus

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”

Firsts Politics Leadership Responsibility Economy Citizens Authority Independent Liberalism Thrive Privacy Patriotic Dissent Independent Thought Tyranny Founding Fathers Authority And Responsibility

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”

Inspirational Made Science Leadership Destiny Fate Authority Irony Contempt Biographies Scorn

Book:Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children

Source: Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children

“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”

Men Leadership Power Exercise Authority

Book:The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings

Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings

“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”

Leadership Responsibility Psychology Authority Ethics Consequence Obedience Reaching Submission Disappearance Sense Of Responsibility Authority And Responsibility Obedience To Authority

Book:Obedience to Authority

Source: Obedience to Authority

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization

“Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way”

People Way Motivational Leadership Inspiring Authority Surround Great People Surround Yourself Delegates

Author:Ronald Reagan

“A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.”

Ifs Men World Giving Ideas Leadership Leader Accepting Subjects Authority Brilliant Kingdoms Brilliant Ideas Inspiring Leader

Book:The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn

Source: The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn

“Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.”

Use Leadership Failing Authority Officers Navy Exceed Commanders Subordinates Admiral Military Leadership

Author:Arleigh Burke

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.”

Leadership Business Authority Edges Heavy Polish Bruises Hairstyles Authority And Power Authority And Responsibility

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.”

Political Leadership Leader Courage Advice Authority Experts Be Courageous Leadership By Famous Leaders Acts Of Courage

Author:James Callaghan

“Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.”

Humans Success Evil Leadership Freedom Human Beings Deals Business Democracy Authority Willingness Discretion Democracy Freedom

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.”

Motivational Understanding Leadership Differences Leader Demand Authority Blind Obedience Boss Being A Leader Outstanding Leadership Outstanding Leaders Blind Obedience

Author:Klaus Balkenhol

“If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.”

Ifs Should Firsts Leadership Leader Authority Restaurants Great Power Rhinoceros

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity”

Opportunity Leadership Leader Conflict Authority Deny

Book:Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues

Source: Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues

“When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.”

People Inspirational Leadership Work Leader Happened Authority Appreciate Finished Great Leader Being A Leader Effective Leadership

Author:Laozi

Leadership Quotes

Related topics

Leadership Quotes