Quotes About Command

The man fit to command may be compared with the architect, who adjusts the plan and directs its execution. His skill must extend to every part of the work; that of his workmen is limited by their respective tasks.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

In the work of government, reason is the architect; it is the part of reason to command, and the duty of weakness and of passion to obey.

Government and subjection, then, are things useful and necessary; they prevail everywhere, in animated as well as in brute matter; from their first origin, some natures are formed to command, and others to obey; the kinds of government and subjection varying with the differences of their objects, but all equally useful for their respective ends.

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Your clothes. Give them to me. Now.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

I try to control my box. I always think the goalkeeper has to be the chief of the box: it's his area, and he has to defend it.

Since myself and a few others like Pepe Reina, we haven't had a goalkeeper who has commanded his area as well as Alisson.

called counter command-control warfare: just knowing that you'd been hacked, regardless of its tangible effects, was disorienting, disrupting. Meanwhile

Knowest thou not who is most needed by all? He who commandeth great things. To execute great things is difficult: but the more difficult task is to command great things.

Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should not wage war.

There is no true scholar who has not the instincts of a true soldier in his veins. To be able to command and to be able to obey in a proud fashion; to keep one's place in rank and file, and yet to be ready at any moment to lead; to prefer danger to comfort; not to weigh what is permitted and what is forbidden in a tradesman's balance; to be more hostile to pettiness, slyness, and parasitism than to wickedness. What is is that one learns in a hard school? To obey and to command.

e quando houve em cada prato uma dose igual de ministro da Defesa com recheio de pinhões e ervas aromáticas ele deu a ordem de começar, bom proveito, meus senhores.

Gail Carson Levine

As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

It is legal because I wish it.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.