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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci
Silence
Nothing
Authority
Much
Strengthens
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
Power Corrupts
Character
Moral Authority
Corrupts
Power
Society
Increase
Increases
Moral
Demands
Importance
Because
Authority
Position
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
Life
Work
Hard Work
Respect
Perseverance
Sacrifice
Dedication
Football
Self-Denial
Like
Authority
Requires
Hard
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Stephen Covey
Respect
Integrity
Honesty
People
Moral Authority
Moral
Following
Like
Principles
Timeless
Authority
Universal
Treating
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
Wisdom
Legal
Law
Makes
Authority
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Jesus Christ
Me
Earth
Has-Been
Given
Been
Authority
Heaven
Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.
Adam Curtis
Today
You
Age
Police
Cheating
Greedy
Politicians
Energy
Lying
Our
Out-Of-Control
Security
Entertainers
Corrupt
Crooked
Features
Main
Journalists
Nobody
Look
Police Officers
Sinister
Trusts
Officers
Authority
Bankers
Children
Anyone
Wherever
Companies
Rotten
Media
Services
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi
Life
Work
Great
Respect
Perseverance
Achieve
Great Deal
Drive
Sacrifice
Pay
Every
Worthwhile
Must
Price
Football
Like
Deal
Goal
Selflessness
Authority
Any
Us
Teaches
Each
Competitive
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.
Ronald Reagan
Best
You
Yourself
People
Surround Yourself
Long
Carried
Out
Find
Delegate
Policy
Surround
Authority
Being
Decided
Interfere
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician.
Al Capone
Law
Matter
Crook
Big
Healthy
Snake
Politician
Type
Worst
Frankness
Pretends
About
Something
Guy
Steals
He
His
Authority
Any
Enforcing
Swell
Who
Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.
Thomas J. Stanley
Leadership
You
Courage
School
Will
Whatever
Other
Tell
Guts
Tenacity
Never
Call
Because
Get
Authority
Did
Grades
Any
Anybody
Want
Succeed
Persons
Should
Teachers
Measure
Position
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
Science
Humble
Worth
Single
Thousand
Individual
Single Individual
Questions
Authority
Reasoning
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur
Respect
Leader
Down
Think
Know
Bow
How
Authority
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin
People
Believe
Authority
Just
Much
Pope
Who
Many
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.
John Roberts
Government
Day
Constitution
Every Day
Abuse Of Power
Too Much
Power
Every
Too
Those
Ensuring
No-One
Abuse
Protect
American
Authority
Ordinary
Against
Much
Helps
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu
People
Too Much
Too
Those
Hungry
Eat
Because
Up
Authority
Taxes
Much
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
Hal Holbrook
Myself
Discipline
Cause
Trouble
Think
Developed
Like
Learned
Authority
Resistance
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
Nature
Man
Natural
Liberty
Law
Will
Free
Superior
Power
Earth
Rule
Only
His
Authority
Any
Legislative
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
Sid Vicious
You
Cause
Chaos
Anarchy
Alive
Possible
Moral
Take
Make
Undermine
Authority
Pompous
Them
Much
Your
Disorder
Standards
Reject
Disruption
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein
Made
Statement
Because
Authority
Should
Believed
Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.
James E. Faust
Faith
Family
Property
Respect
Law
Values
Parents
Beginning
Own
Other
Others
Respect For Others
Law And Order
Child
Authority
Taught
Children
Order
Patriotic
Should
Beliefs
Among
Symbols
Think for yourself and question authority.
Timothy Leary
Yourself
Think
Question
Authority
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
Man
Atheist
Humanity
Holding
Medicine
Philosophy
Consists
Argue
Like
Dead
Contempt
Authority
Convert
Scripture
Use
Reason
Who
Whose
Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!
Joyce Meyer
Work
You
Appreciation
Be Happy
Happy
People
Encouragement
Complaints
Everything
Critical
Responsible
Envious
Instead
Over
Piling
Overwhelm
Thank
Authority
Being
Them
Position
Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.
Richard N. Haass
Political
Nationalism
Difficult
Increasingly
Tool
Economic
Leaders
Conditions
Authority
Used
Bolster
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Henry David Thoreau
Will
Free
Power
Own
State
Independent
Recognize
Higher
Individual
Never
Until
Him
Accordingly
Authority
Which
Really
Derived
Enlightened
Treats
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