Swami Vivekananda Quotes

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

Those who can, must obey.

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.

I play where I'm told to play.

I'm only a player; I only do what my coach says.

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.

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.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

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

I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.

By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

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

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

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

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

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

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

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

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.