Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

Quotes 1281 till 1300 of 2216.

  • John O'Brian No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.
    John O'Brian
     
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Epictetus No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Bernard Mandeville No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Robert Lynd No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Ruskin No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Gloria Steinem No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Henry Miller No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Demosthenes No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Buddy Valastro No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Rush Limbaugh No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
    Rush Limbaugh
    American radio talk show host (1951 - 2021)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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