(771 quotes found)
“To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.”
Dave Barry
“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
“Every good servant does not all commands.”
William Shakespeare
“I would rather be first in a small village in Gaul than second in command in Rome”
Julius Caesar
“I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.”
Carl Sandburg
“Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.”
