Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

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

Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Learn to obey before you command.

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

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

I believe in power.

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

Power reveals.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

You want power because it's an opportunity.

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.

Those who can, must obey.

You don’t need to admire power, but you must always, however grudgingly, respect and understand it.

It is not a mistake to want power.

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

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.