Command Quotes

“Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told.
--Artemis Fowl”
― Eoin Colfer, The Artemis Fowl Files

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result)”
― Charles Bukowski

“If anyone has a problem with Blaire then they need to take it up with me. She has a job here as long as she wants one. The three of you may not like it but I personally don’t give a flying fuck. So get over it. She doesn’t need this shit right now. Back off. Are we understood?”
― Abbi Glines, Never Too Far

“The sign of a good leader is easy to recognize, though it is hardly ever seen. For the greatest leaders are those who share as equals in the trials and struggles, the demands and expectations, the hills and trenches, the laws and punishments placed upon the backs of those governed. A great leader is motivated not by power but by compassion. Therefore he can do nothing but make himself a servant to those whom he rules. Such a leader is unequivocally respected, and loved for loving.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don't listen to anyone but me. You are to be my command laid on my enemy. you'll make a hole in him through which he'll drip away until he runs dry. As he drips out darkness, we'll smile together, me inside, you outside. We'll crush him between our smiles.”
― Margaret Mahy, The Changeover

“Don't lose hope. If your hope gets lost, the other side called "failure" begins to win! The quickest medicine to heal a depressed soul is to command; "arise my soul and praise the Lord". Hope is the clothe piece in which wraps a healthy soul!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. The passion for order and the genius for construction, which are part of man's natural endowment, get full play there. The man who has grown great sees from the top of his tower what he can make, if he so wills, of the swarming masses below him.”
― Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth

“She re-marked her lips with her lipstick. I saw sprays of silver in her coarse hair. I saw inscriptions of her years around her mouth, a solid crease between her brows from a lifetime of cynicism. The posture of a woman who had stood in a casual spotlight in every room she'd ever been in, not for gloss or perfection, for self-possession. Everything she touched she added an apostrophe to.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military conflicts, it's almost impossible to define victory. You can't document the war's progress on a world map or chart it on a historical timetable in a way that makes any sense. A country used to a feeling of being in command and control has been whipsawed into a state of perpetual reaction, swinging wildly between passive fear and fevered, often thoughtless, activity, at a high cost to its self-confidence.”
― George Packer

“Always be in command of your music. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Command respect with style and grace.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“All the inspirations comes from God. Where did the devil gets his inspiration to disobey the command of his Creator?”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Only by listening attentively to every command issuing from his heart can the warrior hope to gain the advantage over power. There is no other way in which to survive the unrelenting attacks staged by power against the warrior striving to gain command over it. The warrior must never, not even for one instant, lose sight of the fact that power is not the sole property of any individual to be used for selfish gain - power may only be used for the benefit of all life, since the individual unit is but a fragment of the greater whole. If the warrior holds his intent unwaveringly upon this knowledge throughout his battle, then there comes a moment when he slips into a second state of serenity and, in that new quietness of life, grasps the purpose of the eagle. It is then that the warrior's command becomes the command of the eagle, and from this moment on the warrior is free of the horrendous temptations posed by power. Finally the battle is over, and the power which the warrior has been struggling to control now quietly submits to his will. This is that true command of power which makes the warrior who walks the path of freedom an utterly invincible being.”
― Théun Mares, Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2

“People have the right not to change as per our wish, suggestion, or command, even if the change would benefit nobody but them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There's panic, and then there's panic, Commander. Fear of the odds, of the enemy, even of death is one thing. All of us feel that. We'd be fools if we didn't. But we learn not to let it dictate our responses. We can't, if we're going to do our jobs.

But there's another sort of terror: the terror of failure, of being blamed for some disaster, or of assuming responsibility. It's not just the fear of dying; it's the fear of living through something like Seaford while everyone laughs behind your back at what an idiot you were to allow yourself to be placed in such a disastrous situation.”
― David Weber, Ashes of Victory

“Barbers are powerful; they command, and even kings comply without complain.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Even night is a gesture, sleep
a cog in its wheel of stars. Lie down.
At some point you lie down.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

“She preferred to avoid battles with them now so she would have authority with them later if she needed to use it.
They never say it's one thing to be given command by your superiors and another to be given it by the men under you, she thought as she and Neal rode back to Haven.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“Catelyn could only watch him go. Her son and now her king. How queer that felt. Command, she had told him back in Moat Cailin. And so he did.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“A man who is thirsty stands before a fountain. "No," he says, "I will never touch a drop of moisture as long as I live. Cannot I get my thirst quenched in my own way?" We tell him, no; he must drink or die. He says, "I will never drink; but it is a hard thing that I must therefore die. It is a bigoted, cruel thing to tell me so." He is wrong. His thirst is the inevitable result of neglecting a law of nature. You, too, must believe or die; why refuse to obey the command? Drink, man, drink! Take Christ and live.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Around the Wicket Gate

“To stop the world is a superb act of magic. Once a warrior has accomplished this feat he is a free being with power at his command, and thus his destiny begins to unfold in the most marvellous and miraculous way.”
― Théun Mares, Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2

“But that’s part of being in charge, Jan. Maybe the most important part. You can’t let your people get fucked over. Not if you expect them to follow you.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Orphan Brigade

“Marching is all very well,” she said to her son, “but where, and to what purpose? What do you mean to do?”

Robb hesitated. "(..)I’m not certain . . . ”

“Be certain, or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive in front of men like Roose Bolton and Rickard Karstark. Make no mistake, Rob —these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command.”

(...)“I’ll ask you again. What do you mean to do?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Marching is all very well,” she said to her son, “but where, and to what purpose? What do you mean to do?”

Robb hesitated. "(...)I’m not certain . . . ”

“Be certain, or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive in front of men like Roose Bolton and Rickard Karstark. Make no mistake, Rob —these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command.”

(...)“I’ll ask you again. What do you mean to do?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“COMMAND YOU TO SERVE OTHERS, DON'T COMMAND OTHERS TO SERVE YOU”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The wild heart can tame anything, even a lion.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“The one who obeys can also command”
― Bharath Mamidoju

“The capacity for self-surrender, he said, for becoming a tool, for the most unconditional and utter self-abnegation, was but the reverse side of that other power to will and to command. Commanding and obeying formed together one single principle, one indissoluble unity; he who knew how to obey knew also how to command, and conversely; the one idea was comprehended in the other, as people and leader were comprehended in one another.”
― Thomas Mann, Mario and the Magician

“Cameron gave a moving picture of a man longing to escape from his trammels, but within the framework of a freedom which was all that a King would be allowed. One evening the King ordered the train to halt beside a beach near Port Elizabeth. Police appeared and roped off a large crowd of onlookers into two halves:

Down the path from the Royal Train walked a solitary figure in a blue bathrobe, carrying a towel. The sea was a long way off, but he went. And all alone, on the great empty beach, between the surging banks of the people who might not approach, the King of England stepped into the Indian Ocean and jumped up and down – the loneliest man, at that moment, in the world.

”
― Sarah Bradford, George VI: The Dutiful King