Command Quotes

• When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

  Napoleon Hill

  Recovery, Goal, Tools

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.107, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Who has not served cannot command.

  John Florio

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• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fear, Yoga, Stay Calm

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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  When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

  Dave Barry

  Leadership, Business, Crazy

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Love, Our Actions, Our Love

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: free audiobook included: Illustrated and Unabridged”, p.166, Wizio Publishing

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• Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

  Alan Watts

  Love, Good Morning, Sexy

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.189, New World Library

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• If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Long, Technique

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• Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, Boat, John Kerry

  "Shields and Kristol Discuss Kerry’s War Record". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. August 20, 2004.

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• Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Evil, Decision, Engagement

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• Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Country, Past, Way

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• Learn to obey before you command.

  Solon

  Education, Military, Learning

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• If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

  Margery Allingham

  Quality, Nuisance, Attention

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• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  Sam Rayburn

  Inspirational, Book, Communication

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• Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

  Frank Herbert

  Loyalty, Son, Loss

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.115, Penguin

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• You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

  Margaret Atwood

  Doom And Gloom, People, Internet

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• The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Hope, Passion

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.135, The Floating Press

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• Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  George Herbert

  Motivational, Positive, Courage

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• In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Unconditional Love, Discipline

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• Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Decision, Fowl

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• I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Taken, Past

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• He that cannot obey, cannot command.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Relationship, Leadership, Discipline

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Gonzalo From Tempest

  William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Action, Failing

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