Obedience Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may always be…

— John A. Lejeune

“You can force compliance with your directions, you can require obedience, but you can’t mandate enthusiasm, creativity, fresh thinking, or inspiration. If you value…

— Roger Nierenberg

While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into a serviceable…

— Liane Norman

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require…

— Philip Yancey

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for…

— Peter Drucker

The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

— George Washington

“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”

— Margaret Atwood

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation,…

— William Barclay

“God uses one whom others would have passed over without a second glance. The history of obedience to the Great Commission is full of…

— Ross Paterson