A Quote by William Penn

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

William Penn

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William Penn
English - Leader
October 14, 1644 - July 30, 1718

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Joseph Addison

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

John Burns

I can also tell in whose hands I am. Do these hands tremble? There can be no doubt: these are the hands of a military officer. Is it a firm pulse? I say without vacillating: these are the hands of a liberator.

Ricardo Flores Magon

Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." ~ Lord Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger

George R. R. Martin

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

Tullian Tchividjian

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

John Donne

Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia should be commended for acknowledging that his views are so strong that - should the Pledge case reach the Supreme Court - he wouldn't be able to maintain the requisite impartiality.

Michael Newdow

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

Larry Niven

I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest.

Tony Gwynn

If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.

Bruce Oldfield

Without a beat officer system, there can be no crime prevention or supportive investigation. This is the very foundation of sound policing. It is the beat officer who connects with the common man on a daily basis and is the five senses of his area.

Kiran Bedi

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Horatio Nelson

It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.

William A. Connelly

Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.