If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully

If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain

The desire to do it was strong, but stronger still was the imperative command of his nature not to do it. In spite of himself he was still faithful to Love. The old days of license and easy living were gone. He could not bring them back, nor could he go back to them, He was changed – how changed he had not realized until now.

It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

I worked with many great assistants to Sir Alex Ferguson over the years. Yet sometimes a manager’s second-in-command is more suited to that role than any other. You confide in them – you tell them things that you would not tell the manager – and they are that bridge between the boss and the players.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all-around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

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

Any man who could not make up his mind in less than forty-eight hours was not fit to command troops in battle.

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today’s cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

Do Everything You Ask of Those You Command.

Believers in aristocracy and socialism share a faith in centralized rule, in rule by command rather than by voluntary cooperation.

There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only “hooking,” while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing — and there was a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.

I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think my self equal to the Command I ⟨am⟩ honoured with.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect.

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

God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.

God did not create woman from man’s head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.