Of course, there are thousands of available quotes.However, to talk of authority quotes is to talk of quotes by people of great minds. Their quotes have been widely accepted and are known to inspire authority.Therefore, a collection of inspiring quotes which are authoritative will be those sayings of great minds who are universally accepted as highly inspirational. They are those words and thought that have kept these great people moving when they felt like giving up. They can work for anybody who opens his mind to these sayings.Short Authority QuotesThe following are authority quotes that are very concise and meaningful. They will take you to the point really quickly.“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”- Albert Einstein.“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”- Leonardo da Vinci.“If you would know who controls you, see who you may not criticize."-Tacitus.“Authority is the ability to rule. Dominion is rulership."-Sherry K. White.“Authority forgets a dying king."-Alfred Lord Tennyson.“To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.”- Albert Einstein.“Authority doesnt work without prestige, or prestige without distance."-Charles De Gaulle"No authority is higher than reality."-Peter Nivio Zarlenga"Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality."-John Ortberg."Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant."-Seneca."Authority is never without hate."-Euripides."Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself."-Vladimir Lenin."It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law."-Thomas Hobbes.Interesting Authority QuotesHow about authority quotes that sound interesting? Quite a great deal, right? The following are some.“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”-Anne Bradstreet."The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."-Ken Blanchard."The Word of God gives power, authority, and abundant life to a man."-Sunday Adelaja."But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm . . . But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity."-James Madison."Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."-Ronald Reagan."Authority—when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats —makes people shut down & productivity ceases."-John Stoker."No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."-Jean-Jacques Rousseau.“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”- Benjamin Franklin."Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."-William Shakespeare."Fire hath its force abated by water, not by the wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats."-Anne Bradstreet.“The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.”- Patrick Jones."Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character."-Robert E. Le."The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperils the foundation of sound judgment and action."-Albert Einstein."What to my Saviour shall I give Who freely hath done this for me? I'll serve him here whilst I should live and Loue him to Eternity."-Anne Bradstreet."To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority."-James Madison.Universal Authority QuotesThese authority quotes are universally relevant, acceptable, and adopted."Authority is not a quality one person has`, in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."-Erich Fromm"For no one’s authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them."-George Berkley.“Grades don’t measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts, or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A’s in school."-Thomas J. Stanley.“Discipline of others isn’t punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate."-John Wooden.“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”- Nelson Mandela.“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”- Oscar Wilde.“Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect."-Bruno Bettelheim.“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."-Anne Bradstreet.“Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience."-Thomas Chandler Haliburton.“It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."-Sunday Adelaja.“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”- James Madison.“I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s an authority that I respect."-Tupac Shakur.“I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed."-Paulo Coelho.“Thou hast seen a farmer’s dog bark at a beggar, And the creature run from the cur: There, thou mightst behold the great image of authority; A dog’s obeyed in office."-William Shakespeare.“Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.”- Stanley Milgram.“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."-Samuel Adams.“Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.”- Stanley Milgram.“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it."-George Carlin.“Giving orders you know won’t be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.”- David Weber.Thought-provoking Authority QuotesThe below quotes will purge towards having deep thought about authority.“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture."-Thomas Paine.“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."-Thomas Jefferson.“The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes."-Lao Tzu.“You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”- ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, J.D. Salinger.“Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose."-Israelmore Ayivor.“You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility."-Byron Dorgan.“We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.”- ‘The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making’, Catherynne M. Valente.“I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.”― Noam Chomsky.“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows”– Sydney J. Harris.“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.”- Pope John XXIII.“The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis."-Dalai Lama.“Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.”- Henry David Thoreau.“When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power."-Rick Wilson.“That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.”- Noam Chomsky.“All forms of poor communication have one thing in common: They ask the person on the other end of the line to do more work than they should have to.”- ‘Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For’, Jonathan Raymond.“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."-Winston Churchill.“Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them."-A.J. Darkholme.“Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.”- ‘V for Vendetta’, Alan Moore.“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”- John Adams.“Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.”- ‘The Shack’, William P. Young.“Authorities without wisdom are like axes without edges, softer to bruise than to polish”- Anne Bradstreet.
Of course, there are thousands of available quotes.
