Top 100 Quotes About Command
#1. There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions-that is, to name them and
Aristotle.
#2. Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.
David Platt
#3. If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller
#6. Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
Edward Abbey
#7. Churchill often reflected on this near-death episode and the effect of chance. 'You may walk to the right or to the left of a particular tree, and it makes the difference whether you rise to command an Army Corps or are sent home crippled or paralysed for life.
Phil Mason
#8. But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
George Washington
#9. The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right, and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at.
Kevin DeYoung
#10. The bash built-in type command searches your environment (including aliases, keywords, functions, built-ins, and files in the $PATH) for executable commands matching its arguments and displays the type and location of any matches.
Anonymous
#11. If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
William Halsey
#12. A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious ... When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability.
Alexander Hamilton
#13. Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that's the deal. If we don't know that life bends to our will, it will not. So the trick is to know that life is on our side
and but awaits our command.
Neale Donald Walsch
#14. Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.
Monica Crowley
#15. The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.
Jean Edward Smith
#16. The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.
Janis Karpinski
#17. A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
Evan Meekins
#18. Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.
Laurie Garrett
#19. I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!
Mat Cauthon
Robert Jordan
#20. I actually have the Arcade PC at home, and it has 5,500 games on it. Everything from the old school, Galaga, Tron, Missile Command, anything you can think of, they're all on there. I love the old school games.
Diego Corrales
#21. Ronowski looked scared when he asked God what he was doing. "You shouldn't be alone tonight." God's tone clearly indicated it was a command not a suggestion. "Hey,
A.E. Via
#22. We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we must first and foremost respect ourselves.
Julie-Anne
#23. As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.
Kevin Allen
#24. Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine
#25. Either you must control your thoughts or the outside forces will control them and be warned that the outside forces usually consist of fears, worries and doubts.
Maddy Malhotra
#26. At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.
Mark Kurlansky
#28. "The duke stopped beside Maddy's chair. He turned to Mr. Pember and in the sort of tone that could command regiments, uttered. "Cat."
Laura Kinsale
#29. A new concept had entered the modern consciousness. The idea of power not in a political sense, the ability to command people, but the ability to command nature: the power to alter and use it to create something new, and produce it in greater and larger quantities than ever before.
Arthur Herman
#30. The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.
Kate Millett
#32. Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
Buffalo Bill
#33. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it ... we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.
Joseph Addison
#35. The question remains, as it will always remain, one of ultimate authority. Who are you going to follow in your life? Who will command your allegiance? Christ ... or culture? You really can't have it both ways.
Stu Weber
#36. When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
Herman Melville
#37. But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
Samuel Pepys
#38. Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, v I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God to do less or more.
Anonymous
#39. T'Pol." Archer made his voice sting with command. "You're coming dangerously close to violating a rule of the bridge. Don't nag the captain.
Dean Wesley Smith
#40. Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Jonathan Sacks
#41. People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.
David Wenham
#42. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with "Open, Sesame," the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights.
Jack Ma
#43. This is my command- be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.
Anonymous
#44. I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Charles Spurgeon
#45. Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.
Joseph Conrad
#46. The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
Jimmy Doolittle
#47. The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson
#48. It's all in my mind.
I'm in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy.
"You need to wake up, Ella."
The words are a command I cannot obey.
Beth Revis
#49. Then it came into his heart that he would command men to fashion a hall and a 55 mansion, a mightier house for their mead-drinking than the children of men had ever known, and
Unknown
#50. Sun'qhela is a phrase with many shades of meaning. It says "don't undermine me," "don't underestimate me," and "just try me." It's a command and a threat, all at once. It
Trevor Noah
#51. The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
Barry Commoner
#52. I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovern
#53. What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.
Andrew Jackson
#55. The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.
Noah Webster
#56. God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
John Vianney
#57. Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.
Carl Jung
#58. As Christians, we are not to beg for signs and wonders but, to command them all the time and not some of the time.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#59. Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice ... and justice is the spirit of God.
J.C. Marino
#60. [Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and dead, into whom he did also command them to be baptized for the remission of sins.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#61. Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
Walter Savage Landor
#62. Acting in 'Command & Conquer 3' called for me to interact with the player and to look directly into the camera, which is a big no no when filming for TV or film.
Grace Park
#63. We have a destiny, he says. Together, Saba. We're born to command, not obey.
Moira Young
#64. Nowhere in Mark 16:15 - "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" [KJV] - nor in any similar Scripture did Christ command us to go only into the Western or capitalist world. Nowhere did He say to exclude the Communist world.
Billy Graham
#65. The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#66. Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.
Tony Robbins
#67. You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
Rachel Caine
#68. Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
Francois Fenelon
#69. An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.
Anthony Trollope
#70. Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief
William Shakespeare
#71. Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.
George Washington
#72. Be loving in conflict or be loving in frustration or let love command your every interaction because love never fails.
James MacDonald
#73. Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.
Lovell Rousseau
#74. While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
John Yoo
#75. When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.
Ram Dass
#76. It's true what they say,
Love is a wicked game,
A game so wickedly played,
I am at your command in your wicked games.
Tanzy Sayadi
#77. A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
Tibor Fischer
#78. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?
Saint Augustine
#79. silver crucifix in a chain high in the air. "NO!" he yelled. "I command you to leave this body! I command you to leave her now!
Willow Rose
#80. Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast,
Of which some days I with design have past;
A part in April and a part in May
Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay;
And as the confines of two months are thine
To sing of both the double task be mine.
Ovid
#81. The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
Charles Churchill
#82. Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.
Henry Highland Garnet
#83. The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.
Peter King
#84. The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#85. Good ideas die every day" in command-and-control companies.
Brian M. Carney
#86. A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.
Max Lerner
#87. The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#88. What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?"
"Everything, since he has a command and I have not.
Patrick O'Brian
#89. When good things become controlling, they command the affection of our hearts and then shape our words and behavior. When this happens, they take the place in our hearts that only God should have.
Paul David Tripp
#90. The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thought,words, and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and bring yourself, your friends, and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage
Xenophon
#91. It was, come to think of it, a little like a kinder, gentler Psycho-Dad making one of his command decisions. Exactly the same, only without all the fuss and blood.
Ilsa J. Bick
#92. Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!
Samuel Johnson
#93. It's a fucked-up war when you are more worried about fighting your chain of command than the actual enemy.
Eric Blehm
#94. In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.
Scott Raab
#95. Can't command respect unless you act like you deserve it.
Jenn Bennett
#96. The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London
John Masefield
#98. By the time your training is complete, you'll come on command my defiant queen.
B.A. Rhea
#99. As Alexander Hamilton said in 'The Federalist Papers,' law is about the exercise of judgment and not will. Judicial activism is best understood as substituting judicial opinion for the command of law. The law is not an infinitely malleable tool.
Edwin Meese
#100. So if a person produces an object on command, Humboldt wrote, we may admire what he did but we will despise what he is, not a true human being who acts in his own impulses and desires.
Noam Chomsky
