Quotes About Command

screamed the Trunchbull and she marched off the platform followed closely by the cook.

Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb. - Rimmer & Kryten, Red Dwarf

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

But you don't have to take his advice. Whether you use his ideas, or whether they spark some different plan—make your decision and snap out orders. The one thing—the only thing!—that can strike terror in the heart of a good platoon sergeant is to find that he's working for a boss who can't make up his mind.

intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else—only he had better not be)

He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions, which this wasn't.) But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail. But somehow I was not insulted; I became greatly interested in studying his command of language. I wished that we had had him on our debate team.

Have heard of armies where boss is not told to shut up – word is 'discipline.' But we were amateurs.

If a captain worries about the safety of his command, those under him need not worry.

The general drops with a small combat staff, plus a small team of the roughest, on-the-bounce troopers in the M.I. Their job is to keep the general from being bothered by rude strangers while he is managing the battle. Sometimes they succeed.

jak se jednou dostanete do sledu velení, musíte být neustále pÃ…â"¢ipraveni pÃ…â"¢ijmout vyÅ¡Å¡í velení. Jste-li v oddíle o jedné ?etÄ› - dost pravdÄ›podobné, v nynÄ›jÅ¡ím stadiu války - a jste pomocníkem velitele ?ety, když to váÅ¡ velitel koupí... pak... vy ... jste... jím!

Ale mám na mysli pÃ…â"¢ípad, kdy byly smeteny ?tyÃ…â"¢i úrovnÄ› velení v Å¡esti minutách - jako kdyby si velitel ?ety protÃ…â"¢el o?i a zjistil, že velí brigádÄ›. SlyÅ¡eli jste o tom?

It's better to be feared than loved. Because you can't make them love you. But you can make them fear you.

When America goes to war, finding troops with brave hearts is not a problem. The problem is finding the right men to lead them.

Marines say that the difference between a Marine general and God is that God doesn't think he is a general. If Krulak decreed that a new world would be created in two weeks, his will would be done. And it was.

By this axe I rule!

The truth is that everything starts from the top. What determines your failure or success is your style of leadership and the chain of command that you design.

Power depends on appearing larger than other people

We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.

One last time, Mariam did as she was told.

For years, he had eaten without looking up, without speaking, his silence condemning, as though some judgment were being passed, then broken only by an accusatory grunt, a disapproving cluck of his tongue, a one-word command for more bread, more water.

Grim-faced, Jenks shouted, "What are you waiting for, Ivy? God to say go?

When she scooped up her clothes, opened his door, then snapped her fingers for a guard down the hall, Wroth watched like a bystander. "Pssst. Minion. I need these laundered. Very little starch. Don't just stand there gawking or you'll anger my good frenemy General Wroth. We're like this." He couldn't see her but knew she was twining two fingers together.

The greatest thing about having power is the mere having of power. Use the latter well, and you'll never have to use the former. Morgana, Queen of the Sorceri

Or she could command him to repeatedly stab himself in the dick. Then she'd run away as fast as she could manage—seeing as she would be laughing really hard.