Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of…

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances…

— Abigail McCarthy

Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

— Bahá'u'lláh

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to…

— James Boswell

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by…

— Lord Chesterfield

There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo…

— George S. Patton

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

— George Meany

I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the…

— Thaddeus Stevens

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the…

— John Steinbeck

If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding…

— Margaret Thatcher

The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes…

— Charles Darwin

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

— William Gilmore Simms

The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children

— Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

— Anonymous