Obedience might be the first thing we learn after we were born. We have to obey the rules, not because of judge or police, but rather the way to keep our life in balance. No matter who you are or position you holds, following rules is absolutely necessary. But, be mindful when obeying, keep your eyes open, and your mind awake.
Here are 43 wisest quotes about obedience that you can learn.
Quotes about Obedience
Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.
– William Arthur Ward
Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.
– James E. Faust
Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.
– Elizabeth Missing Sewell
What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.
– John Bunyan
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grades don’t measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
– John Taylor Gatto
Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you.
– Sinclair B. Ferguson
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
– Robert E. Lee
Blind obedience is a sign of weakness. Faithful obedience is a sign of strength.
– Bob Lonsberry
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
– Douglas Bader
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
– Christina Rossetti
You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
– Robert E. Lee
True obedience is true freedom.
– Henry Ward Beecher
When you obey your superiors, you instruct your inferiors.
– R. Dodsley
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
– Thedore Roosevelt
Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
– Nadia Boulanger
Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
– Aeschylus
Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
– Steven Furtick
Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don’t ask questions… You follow and obey.
– Bai Ling
It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.
– Gordon B. Hinckley
Obedience completes itself in understanding.
– Phillips Brooks
Obedience is a disciple’s first duty.
– Ignatius Loyala
Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.
– Joyce Meyer
If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
– Ed Townsend
Obedience is less painful than regret.
– Christine Caine
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.
– Cicero
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person’s own nature.
– Mahatma Gandhi
I was not born to be free – I was born to adore and obey.
– C. S. Lewis
Be obedient to your superior, and your inferior will obey you.
– Muhammad Ali
For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
– St. Catherine of Siena
Obedience, which is a proof of love, must be cheerful, for love obeyeth with delight.
– J.R. Doolittle
The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don’t even like the word.
– Charles Stanley
Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
– Solon
Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
– Martin Luther
A blind obedience in some cases doth well; but it doth far better when it is led with the eyes of discretion.
– Joseph Hall
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
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
– Saint Ignatius
Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
– Catherine Of Siena
Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
– Watchman Nee
The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.
– English Proverb
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
– Thomas a Kempis
