Command by obeying. [ Motto ]
Counsel is no command. [ Proverb ]
The command of custom is great. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To command many will cost much. [ Proverb ]
Perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light. [ Wordsworth ]
Beauty and grace command the world. [ Park Benjamin ]
Command is anxiety; obedience, easy. [ Paley ]
Born to excel, and to command!
As by transcendent beauty to attract
All eyes, so by pre-eminence of soul
To rule all hearts. [ Congreve ]
Command your man, and do it yourself. [ Proverb ]
Command your temper, lest it command you. [ Proverb ]
Nations and empires flourish and decay,
By turns command, and in their turn obey. [ Dryden, after Ovid ]
An eye like Mars, to threaten or command. [ William Shakespeare ]
He's a slave that cannot command himself. [ Proverb ]
No man is free who cannot command himself. [ Pythagoras ]
Obedience alone gives the right to command. [ Emerson ]
Riches serve a wise man, but command a fool. [ Proverb ]
There is great force hidden in a sweet command. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Command large fields, but cultivate small ones. [ Virgil ]
Command your wealth, else that will command you. [ Proverb ]
Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
Bears a command in it; though thy tackle's torn,
Thou showest a noble vessel. [ William Shakespeare ]
To die at the command of another is to die twice. [ Syrus ]
In the beginning, passions obey; later, they command. [ Mme. de Lambert ]
If you command wisely, you will be obeyed cheerfully. [ Proverb ]
He who has learned to obey, will know how to command. [ Solon ]
They that command the most, enjoy themselves the least. [ Proverb ]
To be rich be diligent; move on
Like heavens great movers that enrich the earth;
Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
Rich are the diligent who can command Time - nature's stock. [ Davenant ]
The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. [ Orville Dewey ]
Some must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
A flute lay side by side with Frederick the Great's baton of command. [ Jean Paul ]
No affections and a great brain; these are the men to command the world. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. [ Milton ]
What a searching preacher of self command is the varying phenomenon of health! [ Emerson ]
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. [ Landor ]
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that reason is weak. [ Montaigne ]
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye. [ Fuseli ]
There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command. [ Addison ]
The divinity who rules within us forbids us to leave this world without his command. [ Cicero ]
He who has reason and good sense at his command needs few of the arts of the orator. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A fair woman shall not only command without authority, but persuade without speaking. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The waiting tears stood ready for command, and now they flow to varnish the false tale. [ Rowe ]
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. [ Amiel ]
Every form of freedom is hurtful, except that which delivers us over to perfect command of ourselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self-command. [ Amiel ]
Experience teaches us again and again that there is nothing men have less command over than their tongues. [ Spinoza ]
Nations, like individuals, are powerful in the degree that they command the sympathies of their neighbors. [ Bovee ]
Nature and Heaven command you, at your peril, to discern worth from unworth in everything, and most of all in man. [ John Ruskin ]
Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take. [ Faber ]
I have tried merely to express what I had to say with as much simplicity and as little affectation as I could command. [ James A. Froude, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and Duty - the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God. [ Charles Kingsley ]
The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them. [ From the French ]
We have the command, to a great extent, over our own lot. At all events, our mind is our own possession; we can cherish happy thoughts there. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Government is the greatest combination of forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined. [ D. D. Field ]
Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments; for he can command his words more easily than his countenance. [ Chesterfield ]
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. We are bought by the enemy with the treasure in our own coffers. [ Burke ]
Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it. [ Matthew Arnold ]
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men. [ Henry Home ]
To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes. [ Hazlitt ]
A phlegmatic insensibility is as different from patience as a pool from a harbor; into the one, indolence naturally sinks us; but if we arrive at the other, it is by encountering many an adverse wind and rough wave, with a more skillful pilot at the helm than self, and a company under better command than the passions. [ L. W. Dilwyn ]
It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]
Music may be classed into natural, social, sacred, and martial; it is the twin sister of poetry, and like it has the power to sway the feelings and command the mind; in devotion it breathes the pure spirit of inspiration and love; in martial scenes it rouses the soul to fearless deeds of daring and valor, while it alleviates the cares, and enhances the innocent and cheerful enjoyments of domestic life. [ Acton ]