Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Those who can, must obey.

Learn to obey before you command.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

The coach is the boss at the end of the day. I do whatever he tells me and don't ask questions.

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

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

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

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

Who has not served cannot command.

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.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Through obedience learn to command.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.