Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Who has not served cannot command.

Learn to obey before you command.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

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

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

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

Those who can, must obey.

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

I'm only a player; I only do what my coach says.

Through obedience learn to command.

My duty is to obey orders.

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

I mean loyalty - you know, look, first we serve the people. I've always looked at that. You serve the people first. But having said that, you never forget who's in charge. You never forget who the CEO of a country is when you decide to serve. And so everyone works at the pleasure of the president. And that's what, you know, we have to remember is if he doesn't feel comfortable, he can do something about it.

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.

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

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

He was in charge of everything and I was to be wherever he wasn’t.

The White House Chief of Staff must always remember that he is staff and not chief.

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.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

A player can't request on what position he wants to play, and it is the same with the captaincy. One should respect this, there are hierarchies.

No teacher ever skipped the student process... if you want to be a leader, you have to be a follower first.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.