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Jai Ganesh

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Command Quotes - II

Command Quotes - II

1. Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions. - Benjamin Disraeli

2. 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. - Colin Powell

3. Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. - Dag Hammarskjold

4. In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership. - Donald Rumsfeld

5. Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. - Denis Diderot

6. You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed. - Xenophon

7. The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can't make snap decisions. You can't have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out. - Michelle Obama

8. If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers. - Horatio Nelson.

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