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Learn to obey before you command.


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By learning to obey, you will know how to command.
ITALIAN PROVERB He who refuses to obey cannot command.
KENYAN PROVERB He that cannot obey, cannot command.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.
RABBI BEN AZAI If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.
AZAI, RABBI BEN He who refuses to obey cannot command. - Kikuyu, Kenya
AFRICAN PROVERB He who knows how to obey knows how to command.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
ROBERT E. LEE Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
BIBLE Learn how to learn before you learn; then learn to love before you love
MUNIA KHAN I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeyin...
JOHN RUSKIN Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
DENIS DIDEROT Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey
DENIS DIDEROT Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call or whatever you want to call i...
JIM ELLIOT If we could see our thoughts, words, and actions as God does, it would be easy to obey the command t...
DAVID L. HATTON Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His...
JOHN MILTON Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worshi...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Therefore wait patiently for the command of your Lord, and obey not from among them a sinner or an u...
QURAN He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
ED TOWNSEND And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command th...
BIBLE It's as f you can say to money, 'buy me this,' 'take me there,' and 'do the following.' Keep in mind...
ROBERT M. GIGNAC You make so many strides between the first and second game, so I like the way this schedule has work...
KURT KREITER when you obey the rules, the rules obey you
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You need to learn to crawl before you try to walk.
VIKRANT PARSAI If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Try to learn from the past when is still present. Future seems often not obey the same laws.
MARIANA FULGER A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perf...
ANDREW MURRAY Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to u...
DOROTHY PARKER Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige ot...
JACQUES MARITAIN If you don't like it, learn to love it!
RIC FLAIR Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway. What are you going to do if I don't by the way, and...
ANNE RICE Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.
NORA ROBERTS Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting da...
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON Mistakes make you learn something, make you smarter then before
RACHMAD ROFIK But you can only go so long being angry before you learn to hate.
KATJA MILLAY Before you love, Learn to run through the snow Leaving no footprint
TURKISH PROVERB When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar bef...
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.
BOB NELSON The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an eve...
MARIA MONTESSORI Too much zeal is a bad soldier who fires before the word of command
PROVERB God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.
MANNY PACQUIAO Learn to lead yourself before you lead others; you can't lead others not knowing how to lead yoursel...
PETER SAYSOMPHANE While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW statu...
JOHN YOO The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and...
THOMAS LLOYD QUALLS You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand.
CONFUCIUS Everybody stayed focused all game long, and everybody played well tonight. This is a great win for S...
MATT LESAN You can't play a patience game with them. They take command and like to take command and if you let ...
BRIAN LARA You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from boo...
A. S. BYATT Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful c...
ROBERT WALSER You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO You were ordered to obey to Allah, and you were create to perform good deeds.
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from th...
RICHARD BACH Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
SOLON I grow old learning something new every day.
SOLON Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOLON Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SOLON No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
SOLON Speech is the mirror of action.
SOLON Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
SOLON Look to the end of a long life.
SOLON In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
SOLON No fool can be silent at a feast.
SOLON Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
SOLON Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
SOLON Forget candle, she lives the afterlife like a barn door in the wind.
SOLON Men and women do have different perspectives on comedy and I think we have different approaches to w...
SOLON Boeing has really regained momentum, ... starting to do well.
SOLON Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them
SOLON A very fair spot but there is no way down from it
SOLON No fool can be silent at a feast
SOLON No man is happy. He is, at best, fortunate.
SOLON Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law
SOLON Speech is the image of actions
SOLON Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large thin...
SOLON Call no man happy until he is dead.
SOLON Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
SOLON I grow old learning something new everyday.
SOLON Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath
SOLON The New Dimension is peaceful, and all work here just as they do on Earth. It’s a place where lear...
SOLON Boeing has really regained momentum, ... are starting to do well.
SOLON count no man happy until he be dead.
SOLON The judiciary in Connecticut has chosen to obey the laws it wants to obey, and to tell you folks you...
CHRIS POWELL First you Yearn to Earn. Then you Learn that others will Burn what you Earn. Stop! Turn and Spend be...
RVM First learn to forgive yourself before forgiving others…
SATYA KALRA Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, foll...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, foll...
KHALIL GIBRAN (Solon) being asked, namely, what city was best to live in, "That city," he replied, "in which those...
PLUTARCH It's a subpoena. He has to obey,
RODNEY MELVILLE Your solution lies not in finding favor before men but before God. Learn to seek Him for your proble...
PAUL GITWAZA Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act i...
ELIAS CANETTI Before you can actually get the drive to reach for your goal,you have to learn to increase your conf...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to...
MARY SCHMICH If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: 'Whenever you feel an ...
ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
SAINT IGNATIUS

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SOLON I grow old learning something new every day.
SOLON Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOLON Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SOLON No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
SOLON Speech is the mirror of action.
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