Quotes About Command

thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

You had to get on the ground with your troops to see and hear what was happening. You have to soak up firsthand information for your instincts to operate accurately. Besides, it's too easy to be crisp, cool, and detached at 1, 500 feet; too easy to demand the impossible of your troops; too easy to make mistakes that are fatal only to those souls far below in the mud, the blood, and the confusion.

Their style emphasized four bedrock principles: Surprise Aggressiveness Deception The leader's personal presence in the battle.

When in charge, take charge, but treat your subordinates with respect, dignity, and common courtesy.

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.

There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

When I arrived in the summer of 2009 to command the war in Afghanistan, I entered an effort that was failing. Many Afghans, some ISAF coalition members, and much of the American public had lost confidence in both the trajectory of the war and our ability to correct it.

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

Ezekiel chapter 37. The only need of Ezekiel was to be in the Spirit, and while he was in the Spirit it came to him to prophesy to the dry bones and say, "O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord" (Ezek. 37:4). As he prophesies according to the Lord's command he sees an "exceeding great army" rising up about him. The prophet obeyed God's command, and all we have to do is exactly this—obey God. What is impossible with man is possible with God.

Learn to obey before you command.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys instantly; the mind commands itself, and is resisted.

Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.

Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing.

Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person – himself.

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.

Conquerors didn't make polite requests.

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.