Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
Robert Grosseteste

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

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
George Herbert

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

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

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.
Mark Shields

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Walter Kaufmann

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

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
Theodore White

Forgiveness is God's command.
Martin Luther

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine

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

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
Wally Schirra

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

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.
Lord Mountbatten

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
Francois Rabelais

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.
Vladimir Horowitz