Obedience Quotes
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When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend. (Quote by - Saadi)
As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows; Useless each without the other. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. (Quote by - Barbara Deming)
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
Those who know the least obey the best. (Quote by - Farquhar, George)
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)
Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience. (Quote by - Thomas Chandler Haliburton)
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me." (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet. (Quote by - George Farquhar)
Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store. (Quote by - Saadi)
In this country my Lords,..the individual subject... 'has nothing fo do with the laws but to obey them' (Quote by - Bishop Samuel Horsley)
The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks. (Quote by - English Proverb)
'Tis the same, with common natures, Use 'em kindly, they rebel, But, be rough as nutmeg graters, And the rogues obey you well. (Quote by - Aaron Hill)
The first great law is to obey. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience. (Quote by - Saadi)
Light is a special help to obedience, and obedience is a singular help to increase light. (Quote by - Rev. John Flavel (2))
Obedience, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therefore an element of peace; but love which includes obedience is the whole. (Quote by - Dr. George Sewell)
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Why does the dead ball moon shining with stolen light have more power on earth than the vastly larger self luminescent stars? (Quote by - Sai Baba)
He praiseth God best that serveth and obeyeth Him most: the life of thankfulness consists in the thankfulness of the life. (Quote by - William Burkitt)
Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield. (Quote by - Frances P. Cobbe)
One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. (Quote by - William Penn)
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Obedience is the Christian's crown. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander. (Quote by - Cicero)
Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy. (Quote by - Seneca)
No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. (Quote by - Henry Giles)
Obedience to authority saves many skins (Quote by - Sophocles)
Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
It is foolish to strive with what we cannot avoid; we are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty; he that does this shall be free, safe and quiet; all his actions shall succeed to his wishes. (Quote by - Seneca)
One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those that we understand as well as those we don't. (Quote by - Lin Biao)
Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. (Quote by - Solon)
There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey. (Quote by - William Edward Forster)
He who yields a prudent obedience exercises a partial control (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience (Quote by - homas Jefferson)
The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. (Quote by - Metastasio)
Command is anxiety; obedience, easy. (Quote by - William Paley)
To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The virtue of Christianity is obedience. (Quote by - Julius Charles Hare)
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit. (Quote by - Jiang Qing)
Through obedience learn to command. (Quote by - Plato)
True obedience is true liberty. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not. (Quote by - Sophocles)
Obedience is the key to every door. (Quote by - George Macdonald)
I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend! That thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand. (Quote by - John Milton)
Ascend, I follow thee, safe guide, the path Thou lead'st me, and to the hand of heav'n submit. (Quote by - John Milton)
Obedience completes itself in understanding. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
It fits thee not to ask the reason why: Because we bid it. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. (Quote by - Aristotle)
I find the doing of the will of God, leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. (Quote by - George Macdonald)
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. (Quote by - Bible)
Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty; The obedient must be slaves (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much. (Quote by - Jules Michelet)
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. (Quote by - Anatole Broyard)
It is much safer to obey than to rule. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. (Quote by - Cyrus H. Curtis)
And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. (Quote by - Bible)
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
I would rather obey than work miracles. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. (Quote by - Angelina Grimke)
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Every good servant does not all commands. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. (Quote by - Nadia Boulanger)
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced in His will in all things. (Quote by - Richard Cecil)
Though a god I have learned to obey the times. (Quote by - Palladas)
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule. (Quote by - Jules Michelet)
God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Obedience sums up our entire duty. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, yet has her humor most when she obeys. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Obedience alone gives the right to command. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. (Quote by - Bible)
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery (Quote by - Bejamin Disraeli)
Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. (Quote by - Anne Sullivan)
Obedience is better than sacrifice. (Quote by - Bible)
Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God. (Quote by - Bible)
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands. (Quote by - Joseph Ernest Renan)
Heaven doth divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion; To which is fix'd, as an aim or butt, Obedience. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
