Command Quotes
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Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.
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The goal of the corps of NCOs, whose duty is the day-to-day business of running the Army so that the officer corps has time to command it, is to continue to improve our Army at every turn. We want to leave it better than we found it. Regardless of the kind of unit you're in, it ought to be an "elite" outfit, because its NCOs can make it one.
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Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.
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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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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated.
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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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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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He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
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Diversity in counsel, unity in command.
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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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Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
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The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.
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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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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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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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We were not born to sue, but to command.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
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Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
