Top 25 Obedience Quotes of 270 - Page 7

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

Archibald Cox

States, Resorts, Civil Disobedience

One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowing Nothing, Knowing, Obedience

Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

Every good servant does not all commands.

William Shakespeare

Doe, Obedience, Very Good

'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 5, sc. 1, l. 6

All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.

Watchman Nee

Information, Obedience

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Thomas Jefferson

Choices, Obedience, Sensible

Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

It’s the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

Steve Farrar

Hearing, Quiet, Obedience

Steve Farrar (2006). “King Me: What Every Son Wants and Needs From His Father”, p.171, Moody Publishers

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

Steve Camp

Perfection, Faithfulness, Obedience

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

Stephen Covey

Law, Laws Of Life, Obedience

Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thinking, Reason, Obedience

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolution, Instinct, Obedience

Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.

Lorenzo Snow

Law, Prison, Obedience

When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

Jim George

Yield, Obedience, Great Things

Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart--A Devotional”, p.139, Harvest House Publishers

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Hosea Ballou

Offering, Obedience, Duty

No master can make me swear blind obedience.

Horace

Latin, Blind, Obedience

Those who know the least obey the best.

George Farquhar

Spirituality, Obedience, Obeying

John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Sir Harry Wildair”

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

Ernest Renan

Men, Obedience, He Man

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

Country, Reason, Obedience

Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, Guizot (François, M.), William Smith (1871). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.425