Command Quotes

• When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

  Napoleon Hill

  Recovery, Goal, Tools

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.107, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Who has not served cannot command.

  John Florio

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• The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.

  Paul Cellucci

  Agreement, Groups, Planning

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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.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Keys, Choices, Bird

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• There is great force hidden in a sweet command.

  George Herbert

  Literature, Force, Gentle

  "Beauties of Rev. George Herbert".

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• A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ideas, Latter

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• A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Leadership, Troops

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• He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Crazy, War, Wish

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.169, Race Point Publishing

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• The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Military, Command And Control

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

  John Locke

  Teacher, Teaching, Easier

  John Locke (1693). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.64

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• Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Army, Air

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Anticipations: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.97, 谷月社

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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Powerful, Slave

  Walt Whitman, “Poem Of Joys”

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• Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

  Donna Tartt

  Aggravation, Challenges, Literature

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• According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

  Adolf Galland

  Goering, Fighter, Supposed To Be

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• He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anger, Noise, Arguing

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Dirty, Fighting

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• The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

  Edward Gibbon

  Writing, Exercise, Choices

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writing Composed by Himself, Illustrated from His Letters with Occasional Notes and Narrative”, p.92

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• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Mysterious, Charisma

  Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

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• If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

  Tom G. Palmer

  Individuality, Born, Obligation

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.37, Cato Institute

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• That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Mean, Appreciate, Criticism

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• The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

  William Bligh

  Journey, Sea, Advancement

  William Bligh (1792). “A Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by Command of His Majesty: For the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty, Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the Said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa, One of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies ...”, p.3

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• If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

  Horatio Nelson

  Running, Long Ago, Should Have

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.353

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• To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

  Tiberius

  Power, Hands, Needs

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