Quotes About Mission Command

#1. 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

#2. I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

Patricia Reilly Giff

#3. I was on the ground, I was in command, I had been given the mission, and I took the decision.

Romeo Dallaire

#4. It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else's mind and obey someone else's command when you are a person of victim mentality

Sunday Adelaja

#5. There was nothing more offensive than a man blessed with looks where he should have been given courtesy.

C.D. Reiss

#6. I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?

James Carl Nelson

#7. If he exalts himself, I humble him.
If he humbles himself, I exalt him.
And I go on contradicting him
Until he understands
That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

Blaise Pascal

#8. Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

David Bailey

#9. However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#10. Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

C. Robert Kehler