Top 1200 Military Command Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself with a single command.

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

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

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

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

This Iraq war has been the most "privatized" war in America's history. It has seen the most extensive use of contractors. The contractors have increased the costs; but they have been necessary - the military simply could not have done it on their own. we would have had to increase the size of the military. But the George W. Bush Administration wanted America to believe that it could have a war, essentially for free, without raising taxes, without increasing the size of the armed forces.

I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.

The United States military is undoubtedly the world's finest. It's also far and away the most generously funded, with policymakers offering U.S. troops no shortage of opportunities to practice their craft. So why doesn't this great military ever win anything? Or put another way, why in recent decades have those forces been unable to accomplish Washington's stated wartime objectives? Why has the now 15-year-old war on terror failed to result in even a single real success anywhere in the Greater Middle East?

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

After Mickey passed, I was talking to my mom on the phone. She was talking about how we were such good brothers and we were so close. And I said, 'Mom, think about how we were raised. We were a military family. And in a military family, because you move around so much, your best friends and your first teammates are your brothers or your sisters.'

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering your every command.

The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.

A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.

When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest. A few months later came the expected military coup - a very vicious military junta took over, of which the United States was passively supportive. Not openly, of course, but Haitians started to flee from the terror and were sent back and on towards Guantanamo Bay. Of course, that is against International Law. But the United States pretended that they were "economic refugees."

When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.

As for me and my house, I have no other refuge than this command of Jesus, 'Only believe' that is my refuge.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

The captain is not in total command of the match. The man who is possessing the ball at a given time is the captain.

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the proper rewards of the military' (the desolators of the world in all ages). 'Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts.' Most learned Legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.

Take a look at the Supreme Court decision that just authorized an effort by U.S. claimants against Iran for terrorist acts. What are the terrorist acts? The terrorist acts are bombings of U.S. military installations in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, which Iran is claimed to have something to do with. Well suppose they did. That's not terrorism. I mean if we have a military base in Lebanon that while we're shelling Lebanese naval ships, the Navy is shelling Lebanese installations and somebody attacks [that's not terrorism].

The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.

Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas.