Phillips Brooks Quotes

Obedience is the key to every door.

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.

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

Obedience is the road to freedom.

One with the law is a majority.

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

Those who go along get along.

Very well; whatever you say is necessary must be done.

If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.

I play where I'm told to play.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

My duty is to obey orders.

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

What you guys want, I'm for.

Whatever you want me to play, I'll just do it.

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

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

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

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

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

Those who know the least obey the best.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.