It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right. — George Meany Copy Share Image
My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes,… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence… — Abba Hillel Silver Copy Share Image
If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence. — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“One of the great advantages of having a library,your eminence, is that it is full of books.” — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
![“I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d1/abraham-lincoln-88_ambition_i-affect-no-contempt-for-the-high-eminen_2296058.png)
