Rank Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. View quote
Peter Drucker
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. View quote
Germaine Greer
I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin. View quote
Alexander Mackenzie
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. View quote
Cicero
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Some men worship rank, some men worship heroes, some men worship power, some men worship God, and over these ideals they dispute -- but they all worship money. View quote
Mark Twain
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization. View quote
Frederick Reines
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. View quote
Mike Ditka
The crown and glory of life is Character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general goodwill; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honour without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tells; for it is the result of proved honour, rectitude, and consistency - qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind. (Samuel Smiles)
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes". View quote
Herbert Butterfield
It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide. View quote
J. G. Ballard
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things. View quote
Russell L. Ackoff
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Europe is a commercial giant and an economic power of the first rank, but it is a political dwarf. Political cooperation in the Community will grow. The question is whether the supply services will follow. View quote
Jacques Delors
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him. (Ernest Renan)
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. View quote
Robert Frost
America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Not far from the invention of fire... we must rank the invention of doubt. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley