Quotes with command

  • What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.
  • 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 towards success.
  • Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
  • A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
  • He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
  • A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
  • 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.
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Andrew Murray A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.
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  • Dorothea Brande 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 towards success.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • George Washington Carver When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Addison 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Victor Hugo A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Douglas Macarthur A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • John F. Kennedy A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Adolf Galland According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Bob Dylan Come mothers and fathers
    Throughout the land
    And don't criticize
    What you can't understand
    Your sons and your daughters
    Are beyond your command
    Your old road is rapidly agin'.
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill 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.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Robert Benchley Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Martin Luther Forgiveness is God's command.
    Martin Luther
     
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Albert Einstein Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Eliot I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Edmund Burke If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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