Best 223 quotes in «command quotes» category

A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

Blessing come to you when you are obedient to God’s commands.

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Do not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.

Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

Diversity in counsel, unity in command.

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

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

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

God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges

God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best.

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

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

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

God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Hillary Clinton doesn't command the screen. She doesn't look intimidating, inviting, engaging.

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

He who cannot obey cannot command.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

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

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

I may command where I adore.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.

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

I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good

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

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.