George MacDonald Quotes

Those who can, must obey.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

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

My duty is to obey orders.

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

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.

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.

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 is the path to freedom.

Discipline must be maintained.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

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.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

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

When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

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

Learn to obey before you command.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

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

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

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

Those who know the least obey the best.