(118 quotes found)
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone 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
“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.”
“The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.”
Peace Pilgrim
“Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.”
William Arthur Ward
“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
“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
Douglas Bader
“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety”
Aeschylus
“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.”
Henry David Thoreau