Cannot Command Quotes
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
- A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but… — James Allen
- No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself. — William Penn
- He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- He that cannot obey, cannot command. — Benjamin Franklin
- If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance — Margery Allingham
- In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the… — Kate Millett
- A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business. — Lord Chesterfield
- I cannot command winds and weather. — Horatio Nelson
- He who cannot obey cannot command. — Jack Hyles
- A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. — John F. Kennedy
- Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. — Mahatma Gandhi
- Who has not served cannot command. — John Florio
- she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not.… — Elizabeth Goudge
- This will not be disloyalty butwill show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party… — Eleanor Roosevelt (1884_1962)