To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
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