Firmness Quote by Alexander Hamilton

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his…

— Demosthenes

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring,…

— Toni Cade Bambara

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The nature of men is such that they find themselves obligated as much for the benefits they confer as for those they receive.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

— Margaret Mead

It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not…

— Abraham Lincoln

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity…

— Confucius

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take…

— William Godwin