Commanding Quotes

“He killed, his sword shearing, shield and horse a ram, pushing in, and further in, opening a space by force alone for the momentum of the men behind him. Beside him a man fell to a spear in the throat. To his left, an equine scream as Rochert's horse went down.

In front of him, methodically, men fell, and fell, and fell.

He split his attention. He swept a sword cut aside with his shield, killed a helmed soldier, and all the while flung out his mind, waiting for the moment when Touar's lines split open. The most difficult part of commanding from the front was this--staying alive in the moment, while tracking in his mind, critically, the whole fight. Yet it was exhilarating, like fighting with two bodies, at two scales.”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in a twinkle of an eye, it comes to you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is almost impossible to command without being an exemplar and to lead without helping those whom you wish to take into your laps.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“I felt desire too; desire to be as they had been; wild and exotic and commanding and willing to worship and be worshipped.”
― Yasmine Millett, The Erotic Notebooks