Characteristics Quote by Samuel Smiles

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

— C. S. Lewis

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler,…

— Anonymous

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

— Anonymous

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

— Samuel Johnson

A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the…

— John Ruskin

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

— Charles Spurgeon

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

— Mark Twain

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which…

— John Galsworthy

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

— Stanley Milgram

I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent…

— Cesar Chavez

Society asks of most men more than sheer intellect ability-it demands also moral hardiness, self-discipline, a competitive spirit and other qualities that in more…

— Julius Adams Stratton