Quotes About Obedience

Don't think about jumping, Iggy. We're going about seventy, and despite my orders, we're on our way to Puebla. So keep your ass glued in the goddamn seat.

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.

Knowing the Word of God is one of our strongest protections against choosing the approval of people over the authority of God. We have to determine we're going to get to know our Bibles.

Next, to Laurette, "Go into our room. Take off your boots and socks. I want to see your feet." Thankful to miss the last remnant of the argument, Laurette Ã¢â'¬â€like the boys Ã¢â'¬â€obeyed. She

Elder McConkie added, "All men, and the servants of the Lord in particular, acquired, in [the] preexistence, by obedience to law, the specific talents and capacities with which they are endowed in this life."[7] This being the case, any time your patriarchal blessing mentions one of your talents or gifts, it is discussing who you were in the premortal world.

In the name of Jesus Christ" (suggesting that the words to be spoken are not his own but, rather, are Christ's words and Christ's will).

Your blessing is going to ask you to do some things that might not be what you would prefer. Do them anyway—and do them with all of your heart.

Jesus also told us to keep his commands not out of fear of his wrath, but so that our joy would be made full (John 15:10–11 ESV).

By Allah, if you were to appoint a small child over me, I would obey him. How could I not obey you when you are far above me in Islam and have been named the Trusted One by the Prophet? I could never attain your status. I declare here and now that I have dedicated my life to the way of Allah, Most High.

But for the necessity of obeying the orders of the Caliph, I would never have accepted this command over you. You are much higher than me in Islam. I am a Companion of the Prophet, but you are one whom the Messenger of Allah had called 'the trusted one of this nation.

Las mentiras tienen un curioso poder: el que las inventa las obedece.

Siempre existe un modo e obedecer.Esto es lo que los cerebros occidentales deberían comprender. -Quizás el cerebro nipón sea capaz de obligarse a sí mismo a olvidar un idioma. El cerebro occidental carece de ese recurso. [...] -Inténtelo de todos modos. O, por los menos, hago como que lo intenta. He recibido órdenes al respecto. ¿Me ha comprendido?

I have great faith that most Americans are law-abiding and care about the rule of law, and if they're told a weapon is no longer allowed in their community and they would be compensated, they would find a way to do the right thing.

There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

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

If you are going to stand for the rule of law, if you are going to raise your hand and support the constitution, then you need to follow the law.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

I'm not afraid of people; I'm afraid of not doing what God created me to do.

You don't criticize your employer.

I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems.

Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.