Quotes of Commander - somelinesforyou

“ Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make. ”

- Unknown

“ In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. ”

- William Hull

“ Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. ”

- Lance Morrow

“ The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals. ”

- Sallust

“ Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. ”

- che guevara

“ They were the community leaders. They were the leaders of the civil rights struggle. ”

- Robert Morris

“ I've got to follow them - I am their leader. ”

- Alexandre Rollin

“ Woe to the country which hath lost its leader; woe to the ship when its captain is no more. ”

- Talmud

“ Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for. ”

- Frank Miller

“ She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. ”

- Bible

“ Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. ”

- Bible

“ Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. ”

- Bible

“ We as governors have very little control. We need to discover - the National Governors Association, the Southern Governors Association - where the true culprit is. ”

- Joe Manchin

“ But I just think as a captain, everybody's different. ”

- Mark Messier

“ A school for future leaders. ”

- Patrick Henry

“ We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World. ”

- Richard Burr

“ A ruler isn't always straight. ”

- Robert Half

“ I think on the question of this war President - if he's a war President, I'm the commander of the American Air Force. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year. ”

- John Fiske

“ To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ The army commander of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him. ”

- Confucius

“ The most important thing that a commander can do is to see the ship from the eyes of the crew. ”

- Commander D. Michael Abrashoff

“ No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it. ”

- Mark W. Clark

“ We need a commander in chief and a vice president who puts the interests of our troops and our taxpayers ahead of their big money friends. ”

- John F. Kerry

“ I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. ”

- Bernard Law Montgomery

“ No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane. ”

- Richard Perle
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