Command Quotes - Page 21

• It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

  Roger Ebert

  Fate, Thinking, Soul

  Roger Ebert (2000). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2001”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.

  Peter Senge

  Wise, Growing, Authority

  Debashis Chatterjee, Peter Senge (2012). “Leading Consciously”, p.12, Routledge

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• Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

  Henry Rollins

  Attention, Band, Littles

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• Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.

  David Lilienthal

  Mean, Evil, Inner Strength

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• To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Eye, Firsts, Speak

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• Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he cannot command the impossible. Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice by an intense inner life. There is no limit because God is love, love is God, God's love is infinite. But part is to love and to give until it hurts. That's why it is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the action.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Prayer, Love You

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• Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Stars, People, Mind Blowing

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. June 16, 2008.

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• I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

  Charles Colson

  Understanding, Culture, Dominion

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• I saw Lord Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts) assign the angel hosts to go to bloodlines and command familiar and familial spirits to back off and quit speaking from past mistakes and past reproaches.

  Chuck Pierce

  Mistake, Angel, Past

  "Chuck Pierce: 'Expect the Unexpected Phone Call!'". www.elijahlist.com. October 23, 2013.

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• Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

  Edward Abbey

  Roots, Evil, And Love

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.53, RosettaBooks

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• When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Self, Return, Gains

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• I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American. Our flag shall then wave in glory over the ocean and our commerce feel no restraint but what our own government may impose. Happy thrice happy day. Thank God, to reach this envied state we need only to will. Yes my countrymen. Our destiny depends on our will. But if we would stand high on the record of time that will must be inflexible.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Ocean, Destiny, Government

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• God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.

  Max Lucado

  Heart, Clean, Confession

  Max Lucado (2006). “Facing Your Giants: A David and Goliath Story for Everyday People”, p.197, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Liberty, Deceiving, States

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• Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Civilization, Danger, Given

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• What you can't enforce, do not command.

  Sophocles

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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• When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• ...we know that God arranges the opportunities for salvation in different ways. Our situation is that we respond eagerly or in a laggardly manner to these opportunities made available by God to us. God made the call come out of your homeland; Abraham by coming out was exercising obedience. There was the instruction come into the land; it was done, and that was the work of obedience. But the addition which I shall show you has to do with the grace of God, who gave a command - and a promise.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Exercise, Opportunity

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.93, Paulist Press

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• A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, People

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• I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word 'Whosoever' is a very wide and comprehensive one...My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Promise, Needs

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• If you think you have no power over what happens in the outside world, this is a belief and an agreement you have made between yourself and the field of existence. Your cells hear this command about your place in reality and do everything possible to make certain, in whatever situation you meet, that you have no power over events. Your beliefs establish the instructions for how you want to operate your biological being, and in these times of tremendous acceleration, humankind is faced with the responsibility of learning how to manage the energy of thought

  Barbara Marciniak

  Responsibility, Reality, Thinking

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• We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

  Francois Fenelon

  Imperfection, Heaven, Way

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• Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

  Epictetus

  Fall, Self, Worry

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• God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best.

  Henry Blackaby

  Guides

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

  John Milton

  Nimble, Airy

  'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) sect. 12, p. 55

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