Top 455 Commander Quotes & Sayings

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief.

After 'Star Trek,' I was the commander on 'Stargate Atlantis,' the final season, and once my character had become a good commander, I was sorry that the show didn't last beyond that.

The future for Commander Tool Belt was not looking so hot.

In 'Battlestar' I'm the military and spiritual leader as well as a father. As a military commander I can treat Apollo only as I treat everyone else. At certain times, Adama has to be the commander and give the necessary orders, no matter how much it may pain him to do so.

Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief.

Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

They actually think I would abandon the Commander. they have no concept of loyalty.

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.

Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.

America needs a commander in chief, not a global community organizer.

Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.

My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn’t engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.

You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn't just stop and say, well, let's wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.

Now, in this U.N. stuff, the commander, although he has troops, they don't really belong to him. They're loaned by the country to the U.N. to be used, but each of these countries provide a contingent commander, a senior guy who communicates directly back to his capital.

I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

It wasn't just Shia that would go to Tehran and see the commander of the Quds Force and others and the legitimate government leaders. It was also Kurdish leaders and Sunni Arabs who would even link up with Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force - maybe not in Tehran but in Turkey or somewhere else.

Why do soldiers fight? They join because they believe in a higher cause -- protecting religion, their nation, defending against a foreign nation. But why do soldier stay and fight? Soldiers aren't individuals. They are part of a unit. And that unit is led by a commander. If they don't trust their commander ... if there is no leadership, there is nothing.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.

I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

As a company commander you have absolute definitions: the mission, the people.

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'

When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

I trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander in chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares me to death.

Whenever I spoke with anybody who said they did not have a problem in the military it was because their commander treated them well. Every single time it was about the commander as to whether they had a good or bad experience.

The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.

My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe.

We saw more evidence that [Doanld Trump] is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. He trash-talked American generals, saying they had been, quote, "reduced to rubble," that's how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. That's how he would act as commander-in-chief.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

As a commander-in-chief what you do and what you say has real consequences.

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

I always said my favorite position was company commander in the Paratroop Brigade.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.