Command Quotes
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"Love one another": No command is simpler; no command more difficult.
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Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.
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To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.
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Diversity in counsel, unity in command.
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To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
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Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
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For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.
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Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.
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We were not born to sue, but to command.
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
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And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.
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As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.
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We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
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A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
