Human nature Quote by Orson Scott Card

“-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

“A general may succeed for some time in persuading his superiors that he is a good commander: he will never”

— Field Marshal Archibald wavell

“When the hell did things one who comes up with the wacky, impossible plans. I'm supposed to be the general here. Now I'm barely…

— Richelle Mead

“No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.”

— John J. Pershing

“We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Hullo, commandant,' I said, 'how's the General?' 'Which general?' he asked with a shy grin. 'Surely in the Caodaist faith,' I said, 'all generals…

— Graham Greene

“I used to think that to make something happen in a corporation or in the army, you had to be at the higher ranks,…

— Tom Kelley

“No fucking way. Commander? You ain't got enough stupid in you to be an officer," Jacqs blurted.”

— Lyn Gala

“I suffer from the usual difficulty that besets the higher commander—things can be ordered and started, but actual execution at the front has to…

— Rick Atkinson

“There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.”

— Amit Kalantri

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I was like, ‘Wow,’ but I got it. I had come out of a military culture, and you just have to make your objective…

— Ashlee Vance