Quotes About Great Commanders

#1. Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Baron De Montesquieu

#2. Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They

Ryan Holiday

#3. Thar is two things that every national crisis is bound to show up: first, a lot o' dum fools in command; second, lot o great commanders in the ranks. An' fortunately before the crisis is over the hull thing is sure set right, and the men is where they oughter be.

Ernest Thompson Seton

#4. Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.

Francois Lelord

#5. To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

Junot Diaz

#6. There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

Gerhard Schroder

#7. Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.

Dawn Powell

#8. The upside of fall was the tourists had gone home. The downside was the county stopped spraying for mosquitos and no-see-ums, so the little fuckers got to gorge themselves in a type of 'eat local' frenzy.

Natasha Boyd

#9. Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men.

Nathaniel Fick

#10. Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

Nathan Myhrvold

#11. And so I just grieve, groaning,
'Let me not go
To the Place of the Shorn:
My heart is now precious ...
For I, I am a poet
And my flower is golden.

David Bowles

#12. Everybody was strange. In a fit of frustration, she scratched out strange and wrote the word CRACKPOTS in big letters.

Kristin Cashore

#13. It wasn't my place to stop you. You had another guy's ring on your finger. It wasn't my fucking place!" He snatches my hand up, shoving my wedding ring in my face. "The moment you put this ring on your finger, you were no longer mine.

Stevie J. Cole