Quotes About Command

Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

When you are clear on your calling, you command the universe to bid to your voice

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.

I'm really more of an executive.

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

I don't just write letters. I write laws.

Power has no limits.

Nobody played poker with Mike Walsh--at least, not twice--but people fought to get aboard Constellation. Her command record since Mike took her was almost the equal of Enterprise's for danger, daring, and success not only snatched from the jaws of failure, but afterward used to beat failure over the head.

bulls and even royal edicts were largely ignored thousands of miles

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I still respond to that thing you feel in an office, wearing a crisp suit and sensing the linked grids lap around you. It is all about the enfolding drone of the computers and fax machines. It is about the cell phones slotted in the desk chargers, the voice mail and e-mail—a sense of order and command reinforced by the office itself and the bronze tower that encases the office and by all the contact points that shimmer in the air somewhere.

Power works best when there's no memory attached.

When I ignore my neighbor (instead of loving him or her as Jesus commands), I am rolling around in my old grave clothes, rather than living as a new creation.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Anyone can be captain in a calm sea.

The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful

He seemed to possess superhuman ability, dispersing many thousands in the square from time to time with a wave of his hand.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

You've received a battlefield promotion to captain." "What? When?" "Just now. For heroism and inspiring leadership and a keen grasp of the responsibilities of command and so on and so forth.