Command Quote by Dag Hammarskjold

My duty is to obey orders.

— Stonewall Jackson

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

— David Weber

Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect

— Irwin Federman

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing…

— Ilsa J. Bick

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me…

— Winston Churchill

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

— Barbara Tuchman

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

— Rajneesh

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

— Vin Diesel

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

— Napoleon Hill

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

— Samuel Richardson

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you…

— Benjamin Franklin