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Quotes About Obedience

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.
~ Og Mandino
Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.
~ Rajneesh
The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
~ Oswald Chambers
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.
~ Walter Russell
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
~ Primo Levi
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.
~ Simon Bolivar
Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.
~ Edward Gibbon
His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.
~ Myles Munroe
What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.
~ John Armstrong
The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.
~ Susanna Wesley
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
~ Billy Graham
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
~ King Edward VIII
What did I tell you about plastic ties? Only for humans, Julie murmured.If you don't listen to me, I can't teach you anything.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.
~ James Allen
The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.
~ Stanley Milgram
The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.
~ Emma Goldman
Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.
~ Janeane Garofalo
He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.
~ Thomas the Apostle
Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not fight. We must keep peace and order and we shall not make any trouble.
~ Seishiro Itagaki
True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
~ Thomas Aquinas