Erika Slezak Quotes

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

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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.

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

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.

Learn to obey before you command.

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of 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.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

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

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominance.

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

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.

His essence was force ... the relish of power, and command.

Even Disney - off the record, but on the record - knows that I have the power. They love me because of that. I don't act like it. I'm not walking around all cocky, but the tables have turned.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

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

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

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.