Quotes about Compliance

Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.

He got his driver's license, he got his high school diploma, he got his university degree. He got a worried little furrow between his eyes. He did what he thought was expected of him, and brought the official pieces of paper home to her like a cat bringing dead mice. Now it's as if he's given up because he doesn't know what else to bring; he's run out of ideas.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

The factory is a dead end and so is compliance. More obedience will not make us better. That's why graceful is in such demand.

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.