Thomas a Kempis Quotes

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

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Those who can, must obey.

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

Learn to obey before you command.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

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

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.

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

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

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I was the law and order.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.

The coach is the boss at the end of the day. I do whatever he tells me and don't ask questions.

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

Through obedience learn to command.