A Quote by Louis L'Amour

Much of command is the ability to take command.

Louis L'Amour

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Louis L'Amour
American - Novelist
March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

G. Campbell Morgan

It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested in protecting itself, and so often, the perpetrator of the assault is in the chain of command.

Paula Coughlin

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.

Michael Ignatieff

When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22). And you may be sure that He Who gave this command to another will Himself do very much more.

John Climacus

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

Francis Quarles

If I had a dog, I'd train him to kill on command. And the command I'd use would be, "Is he friendly?"

Richard M. Weiner

I have to command the offense. I have to command the team. I have to bring a spark and give us a chance to win.

Baker Mayfield

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Iris Murdoch

The C Mission was the first command and service module. The D Mission was the first mission involving a lunar module in a manned fashion and the command module, and the E would take this lunar module and the command module into a very high elliptical orbit, about 4,000-mile-high orbit.

Gene Kranz

"Love one another": No command is simpler; no command more difficult.

Mark Hart

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

William Penn

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

Bob Nelson

Those who can command themselves command others.

William Hazlitt

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

Thomas Aquinas

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

James Gilmour

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