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Command Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we…
- Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
- Obedience alone gives the right to command.
- What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
- The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
- The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea…
- Self-command is the main elegance.
- Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
More Command Quotes
- God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. — Henry Blackaby
- Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. — Saint Augustine
- There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley
- Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,… — Marcus Aurelius
- I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use… — Bill Viola
- Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role.… — Neil Armstrong
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson