Best 223 quotes in «command quotes» category

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

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

I may command where I adore.

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

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

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 can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics.

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.

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 easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

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

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

It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.

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

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

It's much better to invite the audience to be part of your show rather than saying, "I command you to do this." The other thing is, you have to follow through. If you initiate a game and they take part, you can't stop until it reaches a mutually satisfying resolution.

Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack--even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

"Love one another": No command is simpler; no command more difficult.

Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

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.

I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

No blood has been shed under my command this far; and I am determined none shall be!

Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged.

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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