Self Obedience Quotes

If your mind dislike anything obey it

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.