Command Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Those who can command themselves command others.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

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.

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.