Command Quotes
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When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
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It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
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It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
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Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Your wish is your command.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.
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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't have told you but you'll not worry any more if you know I'm in it than if you think I am. Have had the most strenuous work of my life, am very tired but otherwise absolutely in good condition physically mentally and morally.
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.
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Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged.
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The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.
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But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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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.
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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.
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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.
