Isaac Watts Quotes

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

I like to be very much in control.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

I was the law and order.

I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.

Those who can, must obey.

To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Discipline must be maintained.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.