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“Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.”

People Able Decision Support Position Willing Needed Authority Our Society Accountability Surround

Book:Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace

Source: Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace

“Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.”

Mean Persons Business Groups Willing Authority Judgment Appeals Proven Competence

Author:Walt Disney

“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.”

“Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.”

Way Accepting Willing Demand Authority Conscience Consequence Penalties Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.”

“There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.”

Mean Inspiration Differences Ability Power Economic Willing Authority Gains Obedience Intimidation Armament Bidding Coerce Physical Strength

Book:No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior

Source: No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior

“When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness, you do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you're willing to be disturbed. You're willing to be amazed. You're willing to be surprised. You're willing to realize that maybe everything you've ever thought about yourself really isn't true.”

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Book:Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

Source: Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering

“Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment.”

Has Beens Home Christ Church Wife Willing Authority Married Males Supreme Fulfillment Representatives Submission Capitulation

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.”

Ifs Moral Willing Authority Army Obedience Officers Nonviolence Files

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“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

“The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule.”

People Feels Facts Government Passion Evil Names Results Common Subjects Willing Demand Authority Assuming Noble Vanity Submit Oppressed Grasping Flattered Mob Rule

Author:Polybius

“By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States took those same qualities to the nth degree, and the British were suddenly appeared stodgy and tradition-bound.”

“The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.”

States United Leader United States Fronts Willing Authority Transformed Palestinian

Author:Colin Powell