Body Quote by Saadi

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God.…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

— Pope Gregory I

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

— Elizabeth George

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

— John Climacus

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes…

— Stanley Milgram

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

— Christina Rossetti

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Obedience is the performance of a request, but submission comes from the heart.”

— Deborah Smith Pegues

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

— Seneca the Younger