Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old obey quotes, obey sayings, and obey proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.Israelmore Ayivor
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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.Jerry Bridges
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Let them obey that knows not how to rule. William Shakespeare
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Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.Aristotle
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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.Homer
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Encourage obeying all the way, right away, and in a happy way.Kara Durbin
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He that cannot obey, cannot command. Poor Richard
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It is the raised stick that makes the dog obey. Danish Proverb
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Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt. Poor Richard
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Obedience is the mother of happiness.Roman Proverb
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To obey is better than sacrifice.The Bible
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All human things are subject to decay, / And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.John Dryden
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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor)
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. David Hume
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The magistrate should obey the laws, the people should obey the magistrate. Benjamin Franklin
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Always obey your parents when they are present.Mark Twain
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Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. Hermann Hesse
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. Cicero
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A woman should obey her father in youth, her husband in maturity, and her son in old age. Chinese mothers
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Memory, like sleep, has powers which dreams obey. William Wordsworth
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Resist much, obey little. Walt Whitman
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Give all to love; obey thy heart.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you can quote the rules, then you can obey them.Tony Soprano
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The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.C. S. Lewis
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.Malcolm X
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Hey, I have not been shy / I am just a guy in the public eye / Trying to do my best for our republic / I don't wanna fight / But I won't apologize / For doing what's right / I have the honor to be / Your obedient servant.Alexander Hamilton
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My fear, believe me, is greater than yours. It is not pride that stands before you, it is not self seeking; I would much sooner have stayed in the safe wilderness. It is obedience. I do only what I must.Moses
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Sinners, obey the gospel-word! / Haste to the supper of my Lord! / Be wise to know your gracious day; / All things are ready, come away! John Wesley