Asserting authority Quotes

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

Being in charge sometimes means making people mad. Some days you have to overrule even the best advice, because you think it is not right.

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.

Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.

Kickin', ass takin' names, cashing checks, and breakin necks, the champ is here.

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars afterwards to demonstrate my perfect right.

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Power is not given to you. You have to take it.

I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying "Open!" was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.