I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.
I've never been any good with authority.
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.
I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.