Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
Barbara Deming
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Aristotle
Obedience sums up our entire duty.
Hosea Ballou
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.
Hosea Ballou
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall."
Thomas Carlyle
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin
Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance.
Unknown
Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience.
Unknown
Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.
John Ruskin
The soldier is like the monk, for whom order is called obedience.
Pietro Badoglio
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
Phineas Taylor Barnum