Gloria Reuben Quotes

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.

Authority may be as much injured by words as by actions.

When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you're not allowed to be scrappy, fierce.

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.

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

I'd rather be respected than loved.

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.

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

You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.

The only thing I command is respect.

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

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.

It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.

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.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.

Power resides where men believe power resides.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.

I had to look powerful in 'Paruthi Veeran.'

I have no interest in the trappings of power.