Quotations
Quotes:
You can't play a patience game with them. They take command and like to take command and if you let them, they will. [on how to beat Australia]
View quotes by Brian Lara
To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.
View quotes by Galileo Galilei
Those who can command themselves command others.
View quotes by William Hazlitt
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
View quotes by Andre Malraux
When placed in command - take charge.
View quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf
This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason
View quotes by Juvenal
Beauty and grace command the world.
View quotes by Park Benjamin
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
View quotes by Douglas Macarthur
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
View quotes by Sam Rayburn
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
View quotes by H G Wells
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak
View quotes by Montaigne
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic Amiel
And to some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it
View quotes by G H Lewes
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
View quotes by Bainbridge Colby
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
View quotes by Cicero
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
View quotes by Anthony Robbins
Vaughan's good at making things happen, changing bowlers around, and on top of all that seems to command - in a quiet but firm manner - the respect of everybody around him.
View quotes by Geoff Boycott
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
View quotes by Dorothea Brande
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.
View quotes by George Herbert
Nations and empires flourish and decay,
By turns command, and in their turns obey
View quotes by Ovid
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