Quotes About Command

Napoleon dictated the letter on 2 January 1805.

Ganteaume had twenty-one fighting ships under his command, but trained crews for only seven.

Villeneuve looked at Lieutenant Fulcran Fournier and gave him the nod. It was time to surrender.

and more than thirty generals.

The Captain drew a long breath, conscious deep within him of an enormous satisfaction. 'Write this down, and then send it to them. "To Flag Officer in Charge, Londonderry, v Marlborough. HMS Marlborough will enter harbour at 1300 today. Ship is severely damaged above and below waterline. Request pilot, tugs, dockyard assistance, and burial arrangements for one officer and seventy-four ratings." Got that?

She understood why a king often threatened violence. It felt good, and it worked.

An ethics that does not command us to renounce is a crime against the dignity to which we should aspire and against the happiness which we can obtain.

The plethora of laws is a sign that nobody knows anymore how to command intelligently. Or that nobody knows anymore how to obey freely. When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

On n'est point un homme d'esprit pour avoir beaucoup d'idées, comme on n'est pas un bon général pour avoir beaucoup de soldats.

SILENCE you miserable cretins!

Nina said, "Have regular facial expressions." That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of bad moods.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

The highest task of education is—to take command of one's transcendental self—to be at once the I of its I. It is all the less to be wondered at that we lack complete insight and understanding for others. Without perfect self-understanding one will never learn to truly understand others.

Ein Kommandowort bewegt Armeen; das Wort Freiheit Nationen.

I've noticed that people who have a little bit of power tend to use it.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Of course, with the arrival of both Washington and General Lincoln, La Fayette had lost his command and was again the leader of a mere division

shikan means that the sitter must be totally integrated with sitting itself and sit in a commanding manner.

And always there were those impossible commands: "Feed the multitude!" he insisted, when all we had were five loaves and two fishes.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.