Authority Quote by Barbara Tuchman

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

— Oscar Wilde

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

— James Hillman

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

— Peter Drucker

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

— Anonymous

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

— James Hunter

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

— Andy Stanley

Authority is quite degrading.

— Oscar Wilde

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

— James Stockdale

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

— Dean Acheson

If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and…

— Bahá'u'lláh