Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

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

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

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

Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

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.

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

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.

Those who can, must obey.

I'm just going to do everything my coaches ask me.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Obedience is the key to every door.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

Obedience is the path to freedom.

Discipline must be maintained.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

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

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.

My duty is to obey orders.

The first great law is to obey.

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.

How fit he is to sway That can so well obey.