Command Quotes

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

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

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.

Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting.

The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?

We know to much to command ourselves very far.

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.

Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.

If you ask her to do things on command, like clap or walk, she just shuts down. She does not want to perform.

Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.

Much of command is the ability to take command.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

Aren't we in the midst of a blitzkrieg, for a lack of a better term, of informational warfare conducted by Russian trolls under the command of Vladimir Putin?

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?

People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.

I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

Today's clunky smart glasses will be replaced by smart contact lenses. We'll command them by voice, blinking, or even thinking, to interact visually in 3-D with the Internet.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command.

France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

Hopefully women can work with [Ivanka Trump ] to influence up the chain of command. I think it's good for us, for women. It's a glimmer of hope.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

To die at the command of another is to die twice.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.