Command Quotes

Learn to obey before you command.

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

Command any idea to clothe itself in form.

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering your every command.

If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light. Light is our paintbrush and it is a most willing tool in the hands of the one who studies it with a sufficient care.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.

I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

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.

As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

I cannot command winds and weather.

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.