Obedience Quotes

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

I don’t see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
Jerry B. Jenkins

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Edwin Louis Cole

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
Kamisese Mara

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David Hare

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
Ed Townsend

There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
William Edward Forster

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Henry Ellis

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

When someone demands blind obedience, you’d be a fool not to peek.
Jim Fiebig

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Thomas à Kempis

Let the child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin

A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
Barbara Deming

Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.
Henry Giles