A Quote by George MacDonald

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

George MacDonald

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His Man Power Rank Uplift

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George MacDonald
Scottish - Writer
December 10, 1824 - September 18, 1905

Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

Joseph Addison

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Anwar Sadat

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Jean de la Bruyere

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Paul P. Harris

Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.

Ayn Rand

One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.

Takeda Shingen

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

Philip Massinger

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

George Canning

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.

Lucius Accius

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Barbara Kingsolver

In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

John Lancaster Spalding

Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.