Quotes About Command

He glared at me and pointed at the plate of food. "Eat. I must return to the tent and see if Hisself requires anything." He smirked and raised an eyebrow. "Simus is telling his tall tales, and those city-dwellers are believing every word. I needs get back and poke holes in the bucket he carries his conceit in.

Do you hate at the expense of love? If Yes, then you've got to do away with hatred and afterwards replenish yourself with true love. For, the call to truly love all and sundry is a divine command. -Emeasoba George

What it takes to command the attention of the world is just to do the ordinary things extraordinarily. Yes! that's just the stuff. Anyway, do you long to command the attention of the world? If yes, then endeavour to do everything you ought to do extraordinarily.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

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Nothing is more dangerous for man's private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent, disinterested, generous, pure, will infallibly and always be spoiled at this trade. Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this demoralization; they are: contempt for the masses and the over-estimation of one's own merits.

fight authority with authority

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon

Command, deprived of personal judgment, can win no battles.

To the two men it seemed that the government and capital of France were left without means of defense and unable to command any. Only one resource was left - Gallieni.

Moltke was aghast. This was the result of leaving that fat idiot in command of the Eighth Army, and of his own ill-considered last words to him.

Nevertheless Sir John French next day sent Joffre definitive notice that the British Army would not be in condition to take its place in the line "for another ten days." Had he asked for ten days' time out when fighting with his back to London he would not have survived in command. As it was, Sir John French remained Commander in Chief for another year and a half.

Meeting his commissariat staff for the first time as Commander in Chief, the Grand Duke said to them, "Gentlemen, no stealing.

Of authority there are two sorts, the authority of right, and the authority of force.

Another possibility is to use the Captain

But Quebec is an illuminating example of the truth that a decision is produced even more by the mental and moral dislocation of the command than by the physical dislocation of its forces.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.