Albert Pike Quotes

Always respect your superiors, if you have any.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

My relationship with George Steinbrenner was great. He was the boss, and I accepted that.

You don't talk to Richard Petty unless he talks to you.

I've never tried to artificially create distance between myself and the players.

Learn to obey before you command.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

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

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.