Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““the only real owner of anything is its commander;”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“-commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you.” — Orsen Card Copy Share Image
“What you truly own, is what you have inside you. Everything else can be destroyed, robbed or wasted.” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA Copy Share Image
“Leadership doesn’t just flow down the chain of command, but up as well,” he said. “We have to own everything in our world. That” — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
“There is power in his touch, power in the slightest look. He is a hard man who commands a billion-dollar enterprise, and right now… — J. Kenner Copy Share Image
“There was a certain satisfaction to it, not owning anything and not being owned.” — Mary Paulson-Ellis Copy Share Image
“He only is fitted to command and control who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.” — James Allen Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image