Best 223 quotes in «command quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I may command where I adore.

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.

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

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

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

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Keep cool and you command everybody.

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.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

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

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

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

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.

Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

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

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

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

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