Personal Authority Quotes

As to mere power I have been for years in the daily exercise of more personal authority than any President habitually enjoys.

I am the law in Indiana.

If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!

I tell the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm a threat.

We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.

Humanist thinkers such as Rousseau convinced us that our own feelings and desires were the ultimate source of meaning and that our free will was, therefore, the highest authority of all.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.

Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

I am in charge. I take my own power back.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection. Without agency, none of us could grow and develop by learning from our mistakes and errors and those of others.... I do not really think the devil can make us do anything. Certainly he can tempt and he can deceive, but he has no authority over us that we do not give him.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

I too am a government.

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.

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.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.