Compensation Quotes · Page 5

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

— Seneca the Elder

Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.

— Samael Aun Weor

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

— Anonymous

Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

— Sangharakshita

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

— Anonymous

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things...

— Muriel Barbery

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

— Harding Lawrence

“Stop living for compensation but begin to cultivate your own ground.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their…

— David Hume

The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

— Warren Buffett

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wingsand put compensation as a carrier behind ityou…

— Jack Welch

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I say to Apple with all due respect, we don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide…

— Taylor Swift

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation…

— E. M. Forster

There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis,…

— Alex Shoumatoff

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open…

— Jose Ramos-Horta

From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to…

— E. F. Schumacher

The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained --…

— Virginia Woolf

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book,…

— Michel Foucault

Life and work are not things apart. Work is more than gaining privileges and possessions; it is ongoing, ecstatic, LIVING experience. When…

— Laurence Boldt

There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a…

— George Eliot

You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely…

— Henry Hazlitt

For the past 10 years I have had the interesting experience of observing the development of Parkinson's syndrome on myself. As a…

— Fuller Albright

I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.

— Jon Kyl

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

— James Anthony Froude

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

— Henry David Thoreau

People can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

— Margaret Atwood

Though monetary compensation may never add up, teachers can rest assured that they are important.

— Monica Johnson

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

— Marianne Williamson

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

— Abraham Lincoln

“To use your life to work means giving out your time to work to get compensated for it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

— Haruki Murakami

When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.

— Teresa Amabile

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

— Anonymous

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

— Margaret Atwood

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

— George Santayana

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

— Seneca the Younger

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

— John Stossel