Anne Sullivan Quotes

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

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.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

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

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of an orderly home, a successful family, and the successful lives of the children. The wife is the key.

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.

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

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

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

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.

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

I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.

He will punish you as a father punishes his disobedient child, unless you do as he desires.

The power of the master must be absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect.

Those who can, must obey.