Command Quotes - page 2

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking. (Philip Sidney)
He that cannot obey, cannot command. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. View quote
Walt Whitman
The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated. View quote
Carl Menger
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! View quote
Albert Einstein
It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party. View quote
Francis Maude
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest. View quote
Richard V. Allen
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. View quote
Robert Dale Owen
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command? View quote
Tom G. Palmer
Methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain. View quote
Samuel Pepys
The crown and glory of life is Character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general goodwill; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honour without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tells; for it is the result of proved honour, rectitude, and consistency - qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind. (Samuel Smiles)
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. View quote
Hans Küng
If you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use! View quote
Georgy Zhukov
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I don't think, sir, that you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea ... are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it. View quote
George Henry Lewes
If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon. View quote
George Eliot
The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces. View quote
Saddam Hussein
They wanted this iron fist to command them. (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire. View quote
Ayn Rand
Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
He [the artist in general] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of. View quote
John Constable
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. View quote
Edward Gibbon