Quotes About Command

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

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.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

Being first lady is not just about being the wife but really taking command and having true vision.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

One who is indispensable has in his power all the lords and masters of the earth.

Because it is written, 'You shall be holy, for I am holy.'" (1 PET. 1:16)

According to Ovid (F, 4, 259 f.), the Sibyl said: The Mother is far off: I command you, Roman, to go and seek the Mother. When she arrives, let a chaste hand receive her.

Horns not grown, he swings his head in warning and still all take heed.

And he is a Farseer," Dutiful suddenly interjected, startling both of us. "One whose vow to his family has already cost him many things. So, this time, as your prince, I command this, FitzChivalry Farseer. Keep your vow, to yourself. Be as true to your own heart as you were to Verity's, and to King Shrewd's before him. That is the command of your king.

a man who bears himself with authority will often have authority ceded to him.

Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

It was a war requiring the use of strategy as well as of tactics - but, above all, it was a war that could only be won by the use of superior technology and superior skills in command.

most of the French generals were, indeed, totally indifferent to the welfare of the men, provided the attacks went in.

The women are in charge, my brother. We don't have to like it, but it's the law.

Taking you to the shower. Me Tarzan, You Jane. Do as I say.

Needless to say, he will be released, the voice had said

At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.