Command Quotations | Page 7

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.

God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.

When God commands, do it!

I made this my rule: When the Lord commands, do it.

We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems.

To die at the command of another is to die twice.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

The inner eye does not see upon command.

The command of custome is great.

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

Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control. So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized.

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.

What can the will do when the heart commands?

Much of command is the ability to take command.

I obey my own commands about as often as others do.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

All of this helps students develop the confidence needed to command the audience's attention. (This) will serve them no matter what field or endeavor they might pursue.

And he reached back and threw the ball like we knew he could. His command (control) was outstanding. That was the best aspect of his game.

Who has not served cannot command.

Who hath not served can not command.

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.

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

Jesus commands us to go - but we go the other way.

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

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.

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

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

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

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

Learn to obey before you command.

A conductor should guide rather than command.

You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering your every command.

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Fools follow rules when the set commands you.

Oh, what a misfortune is mine, cried Bradley, breaking off to wipe the starting perspiration from his face as he shook from head to foot, ""that I cannot so control myself as to appear a stronger creature than this, when a man who has not felt in all his life what I have felt in a day can so command himself!"" He said it in a very agony, and even followed it with an errant motion of his hands as if he could have torn himself.

Mobs will never do to govern states or command armies

An obedient wife commands her husband.

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

To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.

Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to

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

Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it

Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

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

We were not born to sue, but to command.

You shall more command with years than with your weapons.

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, ''We have done it ourselves.''

Millions of angels are at God's command.

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

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

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

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

He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world

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

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

The strongest leaders do not command, they empower

Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Through obedience learn to command.

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

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

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

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

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

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

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.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

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

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

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.

All power is His and within His command.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?

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

Give what You command and command what You will.