Henry Edward Manning Quotes

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

My duty is to obey orders.

The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

Those who can, must obey.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

I must confess, that if left to act entirely upon my own judgment, I should not have recognized this provisional government …. But I claim no right to set up my own judgment against that of my government, believing strict obedience to the wishes of my government my first and sole duty.

I follow the roles.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

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

You have the belt, you fight who they tell you to fight.

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

Obedience is the key to every door.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.