OBEDIENCE QUOTES

quotations about obedience

Obedience quote

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles

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Any fool can "obey" an order ... the clever thing is to interpret it.

WILLIAM BOYD

Waiting for Sunrise


Let them obey that know not how to rule.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VI, Part II

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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.

SOLOMON

Proverbs 30:17

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Obedience is a disciple's first duty.

IGNATIUS LOYALA

attributed, Day's Collacon


Obedience is a hard profession.

PIERRE CORNEILLE

Nicomède

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The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity.

TARA LEIGH COBBLE

Orange Jumpsuit: Letters to the God of Freedom


Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.

AESCHYLUS

The Seven Against Thebes

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Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility.

THADDEUS OF VITOVNICA

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus Vitovnica


Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

JOHN BRADSHAW

inscription on his tombstone

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Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied; the shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

SAADI

attributed, Day's Collacon


The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.

ARISTOTLE

Metaphysics

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When you obey your superiors, you instruct your inferiors.

R. DODSLEY

attributed, Day's Collacon


Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

THOMAS FULLER

An Introduction to Prudence

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Blind obedience is a sign of weakness. Faithful obedience is a sign of strength.

BOB LONSBERRY

A Various Language

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I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey.

AYN RAND

Anthem

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A blind obedience in some cases doth well; but it doth far better when it is led with the eyes of discretion.

JOSEPH HALL

Some Specialties in the Life of Bishop Hall


Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

JOHN PIPER

The Pleasures of God


The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

BANKSY

Wall and Piece


It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

WILHELM KEITEL

attributed, "The Nuremberg Interviews"