Command Quotes

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. (Robert Benchley)
Always do everything you ask of those you command. View quote
George S. Patton
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. View quote
John Locke
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
When placed in command - take charge. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
I cannot command winds and weather. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Those who can command themselves command others. View quote
William Hazlitt
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. View quote
Sam Rayburn
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. (Erwin Rommel)
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. View quote
Edmund Burke
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. View quote
Bill Watterson
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. View quote
Denis Diderot
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. View quote
Havelock Ellis
If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers. View quote
Horatio Nelson
No man is free who cannot command himself. View quote
Pythagoras
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. View quote
André Malraux
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems. View quote
Neil Armstrong
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will. (Tyra Banks)
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. View quote
Cordell Hull
'T is not in mortals to command success, But we 'll do more, Sempronius, we 'll deserve it. View quote
Joseph Addison
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda