Quotes About Rank

France's Gen. Alphonse Juin was the only Allied commander to emerge from the mountain campaigns with an enhanced reputation: a marshal who had voluntarily dropped a rank to fight in Italy, Juin was far better fitted to direct operations than either Alexander or Clark.

It took some time for the hierarchy of Blessington to make sense

The greatest rank for a man is not FD, Defender of the Faith; but it is SD, Scientia Defensor: Defender of the Science!

They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!

Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!

Sparlo here. I read through your folder. And, Dana, you are a very frank and funny and fearless writer. I admire your audaciousness. You've inspired me to be more audacious myself." Tears filled my eyes. "I hope you do go into ministry," he went on. "We'd be lucky to have you in our ranks.

Three months! I'm not sure he's even a member. What was Arne thinking? A search committee is no place for a rank newcomer." Nor, probably—guilt pang—a drifting old-timer.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.

As late as 1842, "squatter" was still considered a "term, denoting infamy of life or station," of a lesser rank than the class-neutral "settler.

Slavery ruined the "industry of our White People," he confessed, for they saw a "Rank of Poor Creatures below them," and detested the thought of work out of a perverse pride, lest they might "look like slaves.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

VJ had gone to the Naval Academy, where he competed as a powerlifter and developed a distaste for military customs such as short hair and addressing people by rank.

If they didn't have money, they could serve competently for forty years and never reach that rank.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

He who accepts the rank which nature assigns him does not turn into the mere absence of what he is not. Even the most modest thing has, in its proper place, immeasurable worth.

When one is confronted by diverse "cultures," there are two symmetrically erroneous attitudes: to admit only one cultural standard, and to grant all standards the same rank. Neither the overweening imperialism of the European historian of yesterday, nor the shameful relativism of the European historian of today.

He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.

Such is the Russian man: strong is his passion for knowing someone at least one rank above himself, and a nodding acquaintance with a count or prince is better to him than any close relations with friends.

Subordinates may initiate contact more often, but the one with the higher rank gets to decide when and if to interact.

On notera par amusement le privilège commun qui associe fortuitement ces trois termes : la mélancolie , après tout, ne métamorphose-t-elle pas le corps en théâtre sur lequel l'âme joue ses drames universels dans une terrible démocratie du malheur, sans privilège de caste ni de rang ?

People were asked to recall and rank those past decisions that they most regret.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.