Best 223 quotes in «command quotes» category

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?

A virtuous wife commands her husband by obeying him.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.

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

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.

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.

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

Diversity in counsel, unity in command.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

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

He who cannot obey cannot command.

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

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

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

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

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 command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

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?

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.

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

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

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

I may command where I adore.

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

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