Best 223 quotes in «command quotes» category

Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.

Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

Paul, Luther, Wesley —what would these chosen ones of God be without the distinguishing and controlling element of prayer? They were leaders for God because mighty in prayer. They were not leaders because of brilliancy in thought, because exhaustless in resources, because of their magnificent culture or native endowment, but leaders because by the power of prayer they could command the power of God.

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.

Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

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.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

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

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

Take a stand and command to demand what's grand.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

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

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

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

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

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

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

The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

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

There is great force hidden in a sweet command.

Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Those who can command themselves command others.

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.

The strongest leaders do not command, they empower

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

Through obedience learn to command.

Unpaid work never commands respect.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

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

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.