Quotes About Command

Like Good Charlotte, Green Day had a huge influence on me. Just the way they play live and the energy they bring to a show is incredible. They can really command a whole stadium.

In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.

It's better to obey God rather than men.

The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.

In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

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.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.