Top 42 Quotes About Giving Orders
#1. Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.
David Weber
#2. You'll find I'm remarkably good at giving orders, and particularly awful at following them.
Victoria Aveyard
#3. People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.
George Papandreou
#4. If it's just you sharing your feelings, perhaps you can voice it less like an order," I suggested.
"I'm used to giving orders and if it sounds like one then there's always a chance you'll obey.
Kristen Ashley
#5. Following orders is right. Giving orders for the wrong reasons isn't.
Aleksandr Voinov
#6. Leadership is not just about giving orders. It's about being prepared to put your body and soul on the line to protect those who look to you for command. Any leader who won't isn't worth the name.
Mina Carter
#7. The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.
Sun Tzu
#8. I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.
Elena Satine
#9. Leadership isn't just about giving orders. A fool can give orders. A leader listens. He changes his mind. He acknowledges mistakes.
Brian Staveley
#10. Jose loved giving orders to the servants, and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama.
Katherine Mansfield
#11. I can see ye're in a mood to be bossy. I suppose since ye're a laird ye must be used to giving orders and having them obeyed. I'll oblige ye this once, but in future, I will continue to question ye.
Eliza Knight
#12. She scowled. "Take the jeans off." The corners of his mouth lifted in a sensual smile. "Is my submissive giving orders?
Lia Davis
#13. Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others
Saji Ijiyemi
#14. Dammit, white folk are always giving orders, it's a habit with them. Why didn't you make an excuse? You're black and living in the South
did you forget how to lie?
Ralph Ellison
#15. It's not okay to send a feeble kid out to fight our battles, and it's not okay to push people around like pawns on a fuckin chessboard and it's not okay giving orders to kill like a Mafia boss.
Stephen King
#16. Nulle cre ature humaine ne peut commander a' l'amour. No human being can give orders to love.
Sydney Samuelson
#17. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
Dale Carnegie
#18. When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.
Michael Catt
#19. I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew "All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!"
Walter Cronkite
#20. If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.
William S. Burroughs
#21. According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.
Wayne Mack
#22. I will have clients rather than people who just give me orders
Francis Ayer
#23. The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
Al Pacino
#25. Giving me orders already? I like that. Makes me feel like a boy toy.
Lauren Blakely
#26. Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.
Dale Carnegie
#28. Hey, you know what else I don't care about? You giving me orders.
Anna Banks
#29. The clear suggestion is that there ought not to be civilian control of the military. What have callow noncombatants giving brisk orders to grizzled soldiers? How could Lincoln have fired the slavery-loving Gen. George B. McClellan, or Truman dismissed the glorious Douglas MacArthur?
Christopher Hitchens
#30. A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.
Lester Piggott
#31. I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.
Andrew Luck
#32. You are like a captain navigating a ship ... You must give the right orders, thoughts and images to your subconscious which controls and governs all your experiences.
Joseph Murphy
#33. Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.
Pat Heim
#34. In the Brave New World of my prophetic fable technology had advanced far beyond the point it had reached in Hitler's day; consequently the recipients of orders were far less critical than their Nazi counterparts, far more obedient to the order-giving elite.
Aldous Huxley
#35. Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
Ice Cube
#36. I feel myself inhabited by a force or being
very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.
Jean Cocteau
#37. Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
John Dewey
#39. [W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.
Adolf Hitler
#40. All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.
George Washington Carver
#41. Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'
Jim Rohn
#42. If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.
Oswald Chambers
