Top 25 Command Quotes of 162 - Page 3

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

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

Philip Sidney

Power, Authority, Command

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.79

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

Matt Haig

Heart, Facts, Command

Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

Henry Fuseli

Eye, Expression, Command

Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.96

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Benjamin Disraeli

Husband, Wife, Command

Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Wang Jianlin

Principles, Employee, Command

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

Thomas Aquinas

Law, Ability, Command

Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Lord, Made, Command

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

Emily Dickinson

Lilies, Commandments

Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson (1958). “The letters”, Belknap Press

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Giving, Political, Command

"Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788-1815)" translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie, Vol. II, (p. 113), 1881.

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

George Q. Cannon

Believe, Polygamy, Command

The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.

Arnaud Desjardins

Law, Way, Command

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

Barbara Tuchman

Thinking, Causes, Command

Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.36, Crux Publishing Ltd

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

Robert Townsend

Policy, Ten Commandments, Manuals

Robert Townsend (1984). “Further Up the Organization”, Random House Incorporated

The strongest leaders do not command, they empower

Ralph Marston

Empowering, Leader, Command

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.

David Petraeus

Thinking, Can Do, Commanders

"Petraeus Tells White House There's Much Work to be Done" By Justin Fishel, www.foxnews.com. December 7, 2010.

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

Socrates

Littles, Command, Can Do

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

Seneca the Younger

Obedience, Command

The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Made, Bards, Commandments

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.329

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

Roy Moore

Law, Ten Commandments, Ten

"Defender of the Decalogue". Interview with Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. December 16, 2002.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Robert Hughes

Waiting, Missionary, Command

Through obedience learn to command.

Plato

Obedience, Command

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”