Authority Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton Download Open image “Self-possession is the backbone of authority.” — Thomas Chandler Haliburton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Backbone Identity Possession Power Self
self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it. We need… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
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