Command Quotes

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.

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

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.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

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

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

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.

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Who has not served cannot command.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.

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.