Top 233 Subordinate Quotes & Sayings

Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.

As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

I have been opposed to ceremonies at the White House. It gives the impression that the court is subordinate to the executive, which I think is quite wrong.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

I think Americans did learn that you just are not going to be able to live well if you subordinate people on the grounds of their religion.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

Rights are subordinate to responsibilities.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France's interests.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.

Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

No longer can a risk to human life be considered subordinate to blind and increasingly discredited ideology.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.

I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment.

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe. With its own currency, for example.

We don't need a strongman. But we need a strong country that is not subordinate to Europe.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete.