A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
Jose C. Orozco

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Alec Waugh Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney Smith

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney Smith

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
Charley Pride

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
Sextus Propertius

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
Martin Yan

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.
Eli Wallach

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
Conrad Veidt

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine

I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Saint Aurelius Augustine

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
Alex Haley

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
Arnold H. Glasgow

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson

There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
James M. Barrie

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon

Serious Quotes:

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

Funny is when you’re serious.
Harvey Korman

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.
Will Rogers

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
Jim Carrey

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
Gene Tierney

If you are not serious, people will sense it.
Bela Lugosi

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I’m not a very serious guy.
Bruce Greenwood

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Niels Bohr

They think I’m being serious when actually I’m a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I’m constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
Lenny Kravitz

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler

My work is a game, a very serious game.
M. C. Escher

I was definitely different from the other kids… I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
Natalie Portman

Serious Quotes / Serious Quotations

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.
Nick Mason

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
Derek Walcott

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

If I were a serious person, I’d probably have a real job.
Harrison Ford

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
LL Cool J

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Paul Valery

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
Gene Tierney

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
Mark Ruffalo

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.
Donna Shalala

Serious Quotes / Serious Sayings

 

Expectation Quotes:

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Samuel Alexander

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering

Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
Ralph Marston

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South

Expectation Quotes:

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
Shana Alexander

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Charlotte Bronte

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert Hubbard

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
Ivan Illich

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
Brian Tracy

Expectation Quotes

Imagination Quotes:

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Duane Michals

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil

Imagination Quotes:

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
Chris Brown

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
L. Frank Baum

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. Patton

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin

The imagination is man’s power over nature.
Wallace Stevens

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn’t exist.
Azar Nafisi

Imagination Quotes

Success Quotes:

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Success Quotes:

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

It’s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Carrot Top

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Jon Bon Jovi

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Paul J. Meyer

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
Vince Lombardi

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Alan Price

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Success Quotes

Journey Quotes:

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
Lewis Hallam

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

But even if I’m left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
Olivia Wilde

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
Bo Bennett

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn’t been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
Alberto Salazar

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
Francesca da Rimini Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Grantland Rice

Journey Quotes:

Awards are wonderful. I’ve been nominated many times and I’ve won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn’t, it’s still been a blast.
Tom Cruise

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
Yukio Mishima

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That’s what Christmas was for me – a plane journey to the next tournament.
Monica Seles

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo Basho

I am an unpredictable journey.
Claire Forlani

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
Harry Callahan

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton

I make fun wherever I go… If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It’s part of the journey.
Cloris Leachman

Journey Quotes

Heart Quotes:

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve Jobs

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart Quotes:

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
Vince Lombardi

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil Gibran

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
Audrey Hepburn

Heart Quotes

 

Courage Quotes :

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark TwainCourage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz

Courage Quotes:

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Euripides

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
John Wooden

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean Paul

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster

Courage Quotes

 

Win Quotes:

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi

If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi

Win Quotes:

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Michael Jordan

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar

I’m bi-winning. I win here, I win there.
Charlie Sheen

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Richard Bach

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Donald Trump

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno

In order to win, you must expect to win.
Richard Bach

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
Richard M. Nixon

You will never win if you never begin.
Helen Rowland

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Douglas MacArthur

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia Earhart

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
Mike Ditka

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Mike Ditka

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli

True champions aren’t always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.
Mia Hamm

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
Virgil

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner

I’ve never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn’t have the right attitude, didn’t give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn’t prepared and didn’t have the whole program worked out.
Ted Turner

I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.
Arnold Palmer

You must play boldly to win.
Arnold Palmer

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
Tom Hopkins

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Ovid

I come to win.
Leo Durocher

If you don’t practice you don’t deserve to win.
Andre Agassi

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille

The real deal is always going to win in the end.
Bill Hybels

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
James Whitcomb Riley

Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win.
Deion Sanders

Win Quotes

 

Rich Quotes:

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau

You may be surprised to discover you’re rich, especially if you’re broke.
P. J. O’Rourke

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Rich Quotes:

A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

You’ve got to be rich to have a swing like that.
Bob Hope
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster Fuller

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O’Connor

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Michel de Montaigne

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Grover Cleveland

You can’t have personal investors anymore because it’s too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
Stephen Sondheim

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
Daniel Goleman

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina’s wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
Evita Peron

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
Evita Peron

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
Bill Murray

I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
Tom Petty

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
Tim Roth

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