Command Quotes

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

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

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.

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

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

Those who can command themselves command others.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

A conductor should guide rather than command.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.

And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

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.