Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.

I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.

I feel people look up to me.

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

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

We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.

If we show ourselves as weak, we lose.... In the end, we want to lead the Muslim world. We can only do that with our heads held high.

Of all forms of prestige, moral prestige is the most valuable, and no statesman should forget that one of the chief elements of British power is the moral weight that is behind it.

A seat in the council is honor without profit.

It is important to gain respect rather than sympathy.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.