(85 quotes found)
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!”
Dan Castellaneta
“The weight of this sad time we must obey;Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
William Shakespeare
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle
“Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]”
“It is so easy to give a naughty boy a slap, overpower him in an instant, and make him obey, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can possibly spend time to wait for the slow return of his reason and the conquest of himself in the uncertai”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them”
Henry David Thoreau
“I'll neverBe such a gosling to obey instinct, but standAs if a man were author of himselfAnd knew no other kin.”
“Learn to obey before you command.”
Solon