Quotes About Command

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.

If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

facility devoted to that purpose. She would have been briefed with whatever half-truths the Southern Reach's command and control deemed useful, based on criteria Control still found arcane, even murky. She would have been subjected to conditioning to make her more receptive to hypnotic suggestion. * * *

He was Control, and he was in control.

On my arrival at Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, I found that the Convention of the State had made provision for a State army, and had appointed me to the command, with the rank of major-general.

My world. My rules. I would command everyone to do so many things! Be kind. Oh, I would command everyone to stop buying tabloids!

The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.

Fear enslaved us," he said. "He made us vicious. You freed us. We are here to thank you for that and to pledge our allegiance to you. Our code of honor demands no less. You will be our ruler now. We are yours to command, your loyal servants.

There was no way he could ever be my hero when his first words to me were a command to keep things quiet.

Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me." "Woof," I said.

As awful as it sounds, money is power, and power is magnetic.

He didn't move, didn't blink, wasn't physically aggressive in any way, but he bled power, and he knew it.

On your marks, boys," Tobias Hawthorne said on the recording. "Get set. Go.

He called out to no one in particular, Fire in the Hole!

I don't mind taking orders from them as has the right to give them, she said, but take orders from that ridiculous bird I will not.

I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.

Quickly, Holly, said Artemis urgently. Follow those bubbles. Holly opened the throttle. Now there's an order I never thought I'd hear from you.