Quotes about obedience

Obedience is better than sacrifice.

— Bible

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

— Jean Cocteau

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who know the least obey the best.

— George Farquhar

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

— William Edward Forster

No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.

— Henry Giles

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.

— Angelina Grimke

It is much safer to obey, than to govern.

— Thomas Kempis

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

— Blaise Pascal

The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.

— English Proverb

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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.

— John Ruskin

Every good servant does not all commands.

— William Shakespeare

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.

— Anne Sullivan

Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance.

— Source Unknown

Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience.

— Source Unknown

Unwavering obedience to the true principles we learn will assure us spiritual survival.

— Source Unknown

Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.

— William A. Ward

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.

— Simone Weil

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

— Oscar Wilde

All good things that happen to us is the result of our own obedience to God, while the bad once, measures our failure to do His will.

— Fausto Gil