Quotes About Obedience

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

If my coach told me to go run them bleachers, you didn't ask no questions. I turned around and started running until he said stop.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live.

If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.

You need to be moving if you want God to show you which way to go.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

If your first response is, 'I can't do this,' then that is exactly where God wants you to be.

In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.