Command Quotes - Page 5

• Learn to obey before you command.

  Solon

  Education, Military, Learning

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• I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Wind, Names

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• A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Slave, Be A Slave

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Evil, Decision, Engagement

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• If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Long, Technique

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• Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, Boat, John Kerry

  "Shields and Kristol Discuss Kerry’s War Record". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. August 20, 2004.

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• Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Country, Past, Way

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• The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Poverty, Poor

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• At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Girl, Women

  "A Woman of Thirty" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriag, (Ch. III), 1842.

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• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  Sam Rayburn

  Inspirational, Book, Communication

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• Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

  David L. Bazelon

  Believe, Law, Society

  David L. Bazelon (1988). “Questioning Authority: Justice and Criminal Law”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• He who cannot obey cannot command.

  Jack Hyles

  Obedience

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• The strongest leaders do not command, they empower

  Ralph Marston

  Empowering, Leader, Strongest

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• Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Decision, Fowl

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• I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Gonzalo From Tempest

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

  Margery Allingham

  Quality, Nuisance, Attention

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• You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

  Margaret Atwood

  Doom And Gloom, People, Internet

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• The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Hope, Passion

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.135, The Floating Press

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• Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  George Herbert

  Motivational, Positive, Courage

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• In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Unconditional Love, Discipline

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• I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Taken, Past

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• He that cannot obey, cannot command.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Relationship, Leadership, Discipline

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Action, Failing

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• Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

  Frank Herbert

  Loyalty, Son, Loss

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.115, Penguin

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• It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Suffering, Obedience

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