Ability Quote by George S. Patton

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

— Hannah More

Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which…

— George Washington

“All, from police forces to armed forces, are rigid hierarchies of salaried employees, and all are necessarily cumbered with incompetents who cannot do their…

— Laurence J. Peter

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never…

— Calvin Coolidge

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or…

— Anonymous

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient…

— Bertrand Russell

Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.

— George S. Patton

Who hath not served can not command.

— John Florio

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and…

— George Washington

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

— David Weber

It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal…

— John Paul Jones

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape…

— Mahatma Gandhi