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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Power
Must
Obeyed
He
Wishes
Know
How
Command
Who
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran
Inspirational
Love
Today
Truth
Obey
Beauty
Before
Yesterday
Our
Bent
Follow
Obeyed
Kings
Only
Only Love
Kneel
Necks
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Douglas MacArthur
Obeyed
Give
Never
Order
Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.
Joyce Meyer
God
Complaining
Complain
Wilderness
Entered
Promised
Promised Land
Obeyed
Could
Years
Just
Land
Forty
Forty Years
Wasted
Murmuring
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wisdom
Fool
Courage
Doubt
Heroic
Heroism
Ought
Obeyed
Self
Obstacle
Know
Greatest
Prove
Truest
Greatest Obstacle
Going
May
Being
Whether
Resist
Profoundest
Resisted
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
God
Spiritual
Bible
Word
Few
Nothing
Christian
Others
Favorite
Must
Obeyed
Select
Perfection
Exclusion
Well
Make
Passages
Understood
Than
Shortest
Less
Whole
Route
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.
Smedley Butler
Military
Everyone
Typical
Obeyed
Mental
Remained
Faculties
Animation
Suspended
Orders
While
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller
Leadership
You
Obeyed
Wisely
Cheerfully
Command
The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.
Peter Marshall
Will
Pulpit
Minister
Easy
Obeyed
Could
He
True
Because
His
Denied
Means
Help
Profession
Livelihood
Chosen
We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.
Adolf Eichmann
War
God
Meet
Obeyed
Laws
Shall
Flag
Again
Loyal
Believed
The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Duty
Defines
Obeyed
Perceived
Risk
Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.
Dara Horn
God
Bible
Events
Remember
Recording
Understanding
Past
Jews
Obeyed
Through
Historically
Times
Hebrew
Them
Lens
Dozens
Present
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler
Crazy
Man
Young
Obeyed
Only
Himself
Blinded
Passions
His
Impulses
Young Man
Moment
Who
I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
Janet Jackson
You
Parents
Own
Our
Kids
Out
Kind
Obeyed
My Own
House
Said
Were
Get
Wanted
Ask
Why
I obeyed my parents' rules inside our Chinese household while I pursued my dreams in the American world outside.
Jimmy O. Yang
Dreams
World
Parents
Our
Rules
Inside
Obeyed
Pursued
Outside
Household
American
While
Chinese
A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
Matt Groening
Life
People
Believe
Everybody
Everything
Would
Would-Be
Fine
Obeyed
About
Never
Real
Were
Lot
Did
Going
Just
Happen
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood
Guilt
Parents
Wish
Every
Saw
Penalty
Must
Would
Obeyed
Anguish
Gods
Suffer
Whose
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
Primo Levi
Nature
Gossip
Relief
Obeyed
Primary
Piece
Accompanies
Experiences
Anyone
Transmitting
Explosive
Who
Satisfying
Need
I'd never been religious, but I'd always obeyed my elders. My decision to become an omnivore was fraught, not because it was a religious transgression but because it was my first act of self-assertion as a young adult.
Samin Nosrat
Decision
First
Become
Young
Fraught
Religious
Obeyed
Adult
Never
Because
Always
Been
Young Adult
Transgression
Elders
Act
Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so I think that if you had better data, there'd be no one more in favor of it than law abiding gun owners because they don't want to be smeared and lumped in with the criminals who use guns.
Stephen J. Dubner
You
People
Law
Better
Gun
Think
Criminals
Favor
Abide
Obeyed
Guns
Law-Abiding
Data
Laws
More
Had
No-One
Most
Protect
Make
Because
Than
Owners
Want
Use
Ignored
Who
Lumped
If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.
Theodor Mommsen
Time
Obedience
Ocean
Mouth
Corner
Says
Obeyed
Voluntary
Emperor
His
Trusted
Romans
Little
Far
Coast
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Hell
Society
Obeyed
Go
His
Commands
Who
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