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Learn to obey before you command.

Solon

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Before Command Learn Obey

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Solon
Greek - Statesman
638 BC - 558 BC

Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is more for our good to obey than to command; hence perfect souls have always had a great affection for obedience, and have found all their joy and comfort in it.

Saint Francis de Sales

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.

John Piper

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

Rajneesh

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

William Kingdon Clifford

You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.

Walter Russell

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Fulton J. Sheen

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

Noah Webster

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Victor Hugo

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

Mark Twain

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.

John Ruskin

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

Matt Haig

It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested in protecting itself, and so often, the perpetrator of the assault is in the chain of command.

Paula Coughlin

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