OBEDIENCE

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(232 votes)  Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.

William A. Ward
1921-,

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(180 votes)  It is much safer to obey, than to govern.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(177 votes)  Every good servant does not all commands.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(173 votes)  The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.

English Proverb
Sayings of British Origin

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(169 votes)  Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance.

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

Jean Cocteau
1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(160 votes)  Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

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(159 votes)  Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival.

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(157 votes)  Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience.

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(153 votes)  It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(145 votes)  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
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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

Henry Giles

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(138 votes)  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
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(133 votes)  Those who know the least obey the best.

George Farquhar
c.1677-1707, Irish Playwright

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(130 votes)  Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906-1945, German Lutheran Pastor and Theologian

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(127 votes)  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
1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(122 votes)  Obedience is better than sacrifice.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(121 votes)  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
1866-1936, American Educator of the Deaf, Blind

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(104 votes)  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
1805-1879, American Abolitionist, Feminist

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

William Edward Forster
1818-1886, British Statesman

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