Command Quotes
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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.
Sarah West
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I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can't, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God's help you can command your will when you can't command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn't appear to agree with us.
Elizabeth Goudge
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
Adolf Galland
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Those who can command themselves command others.
William Hazlitt
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I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.
Van Jones
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Victor Hugo
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
George Washington
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To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.
Eileen Collins
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All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.
Eugene V. Debs
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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She (Rachel) pulled away and looked into his eyes. "Don't give up." "There goes my plan." "I'm serious. Even if things look bad, find a way to win. Find it." "You too," Jason urged. "Within reason. Don't try some huge Edomic command and blow yourself to pieces." "There goes my plan." "You stole my line.
Brandon Mull
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
George Eliot
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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.
David Lilienthal
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
John Locke Nazareth
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Your wish is your command.
Katrina Mayer
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Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.
William Shakespeare
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The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.
Merle Haggard
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No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.
Simon Sinek
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She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.
Elizabeth Goudge