Quotation Explorer - 'Obey'

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young. - Noah Webster
Reason should direct and appetite obey. - Cicero
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. - Chaim Weizmann
He who refuses to obey cannot command. - Kenyan Proverb
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH."Only those who obey the word of truth can truly worship God in spirit. - Mac Canoza
when you obey the rules, the rules obey you - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. - Mark Twain
Pray more often and read and obey The Holy Scriptures in The Holy Bible. - Errol Anthony Smythe.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. - John Dryden
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. - Lao-Tzu
How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion. - Thomas Hobbes
With grace, we can obey God’s commands. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth. - Jim George
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. - David Hume
Give all to love; obey thy heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Immediately after his re-election [Cameron] announced: For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens so long as you obey the law we will leave you alone. A statement so far to the right that it conceded the political centre ground to Judge Dredd. - Frankie Boyle
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun. - Katherine Hepburn
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. - Alfred A. Montapert
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it. - Josh Lieb
Christians who say we are not to judge others are only partially correct! Judging rightly is what Jesus commands. Love and truth are The Commanded Conjoined Twins for Jesus Followers; they must never be separated if we wish to obey Jesus’ Platinum Rule! - Gary Patton
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. - Alan Bennett
What ever lives obeys . . . he who cannot obey himself is commanded. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Obey the law and be someone else biatch. - Deyth Banger
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? - Henry David Thoreau
I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey. - Geoffrey Wood
Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity. - Santosh Kalwar
We just have to believe and excise our faith: The Lord answered, 'If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to thi mulberry tree, 'May you be uprooted and thrown into the sea,' and it would obey you!(Luke 17:6, NLT). - Euginia Herlihy
Then the Lord said: "If you had the faith the size of a mustard grain, you would say to this black mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea!' and it would obey you. Luke 17:6 - New World Translation of the World Scriptures
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. - Søren Kierkegaard
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are benefits in confrontation. Even though we don’t like it most of the time, but people who obey this demand of life, live in peace better than the others. They avoid conflict and fights, better than others. They are able to identify their friends and enemies faster than others. - Sunday Adelaja
A strange smile was playing about his face, and Wendy saw it and shuddered. While that smile was on his face no one dared address him; all they could do was to stand ready to obey. - J.M. Barrie
The less you obey the Word of God, the more you distance yourself from God in the spiritual realm - Sunday Adelaja
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.... - C. S. Lewis
So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested. - Alan de Jager
We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be. - Jordan Ellenberg
Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him. - Charles F. Stanley
Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them. - Ammon Hennacy
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts. - Georges Rouault
It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. - Mark Twain
Don’t follow any leader; don’t obey to anyone; crowds are slaves; take an independent stance; take orders only from your own mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The longing of my soul is to know and obey the Supreme-being,God. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water. - Simone Weil
There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X
Learn to obey before you command. - Solon
If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it. - G.K. Chesterton
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. - Edmund Burke
(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even care what drives us crazy! - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katherine Hepburn
It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.
Leadership crisis erupt when people who have not learnt how to obey instructions are given the privilege to give commands. Leaders are experienced servants. - Israelmore Ayivor
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. - Tom Robbins
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. - King Edward VIII
A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society. - Santosh Kalwar
People love to quote that Jesus is love, yet they neglect to mention that He's also King. If you love the King, you will obey Him. - Alisa Hope Wagner
You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey. - Robert E. Lee
You don’t need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience. - Jim George
You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand. - Confucius
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X
Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what is written are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If a person could not understand the truth, he could not reject it. - Finis Jennings Dake
By learning to obey, you will know how to command. - Italian Proverb
All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey. - Marty Rubin
I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women? - Anton Chekhov
The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will? - Alan de Jager
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