When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form and who calls nothing his own.

[Verse 221]
TR- Friedrich Max Müller

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

It is not the office that brings honour to the man, but the man to the office.

He said to me that I might want an officer who had served with me in the West, mentioning Sherman specially, to take his place. If so, he begged me not to hesitate about making the change. He urged that the work before us was of such vast importance to the whole nation that the feeling or wishes of no one person should stand in the way of selecting the right men for all positions. For himself, he would serve to the best of his ability wherever placed. I assured him that I had no thought of substituting any one for him. As to Sherman, he could not be spared from the West. This incident gave me even a more favorable opinion of Meade than did his great victory at Gettysburg the July before. It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and heroes. An original, that's the person to astonish and to rule.

Certainly the man who makes his own wealth eclipses those who inherit rank from others.” I

ما الحيلة؟ .. أمامنا رجل يدّعي الزعامة وبيده مسدس!

He’d no longer be a grade-motivated person. He’d be a knowledge-motivated person.

"If the formation is itself off course, then the man who is really to get "on course" must leave the formation."

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.