Quotes About Rank

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to examination.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Character is more important than rank. Loyalty is more important than wealth. And what the people who truly know you think, is more important than your status in the eyes of strangers.

shot … Death enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. I felt I could touch it. The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road … My

By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often the most atrocious actions, for which persons in a humble line would be exemplarily punished, while men and women of rank claim the privilege of being infamous.

The saint is a good Welshwoman, and knows her countrymen. We are not quick in respect to rank or riches, we do not doff and bow and scrape when any man flaunts himself before us. We are blunt and familiar even in praise. What we value we value in the heart, and

The value and rank of a learned man is more than his knowledge.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Math is hard work and it occupies your mind—and it doesn't hurt to learn all you can of it, no matter what rank you are; everything of any importance is founded on mathematics.

I was promoted to corporal. I was promoted seven times. To corporal.

And Quirk's a captain now," he said. "Captain Quirk?" The motorcycle cop grinned. "Captain Quirk," he said.

Respect is a one way street, it goes from bottom to top

The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated her beauty and her high rank as things of no value.

His curiosity and love of gossip, albeit with an academic slant, made even the loudmouthed women in the bazaar look like rank amateurs.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

Si la fama me perteneciera, no podría escapar de ella –y si no, no me alcanzaría el día más largo para cazarla –y la aprobación de mi Perro me abandonaría –entonces– Mi Rango de Descalza es mejor–

Scholars of English literature have tried to chart the construction of domesticated femininity, although there is a certain confusion as to whether the new domestic woman was the epitome of bourgeois personality, or was an ornament shared by the middling ranks and the landed.

If cybercrime were a country, it would rank in the top twenty-five in terms of annual GDP.

Eventually, a Soviet general sat down in the empty seat next to Howley. Rank-conscious, the Russian visibly shuddered when he realized he was sitting next to someone of much lower position. 'I see you're a colonel,' he said through an interpreter. Howley looked up from his plate and grumbled, 'I see you're a general. Here, have some salami.

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.