Committed Quote by Anna Julia Cooper

“The duties, which a man performs as a friend or parent, do not seem merely owing to his benefactor or children; nor can he…

— Christopher Hitchens

“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or…

— Andrew Carnegie

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

“There are two ways whereby men may be guilty of the neglect of this heavenly favour:--[1.] They are so when the gift itself is…

— John Owen

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“When a job is undertaken from necessity, or from a grim sense of disagreeable duty, the worker is self-consciously aware of the toils and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Sacrifice by its strictest definition takes something precious in exchange for the appeasement of a higher power. And abiding devotion to a cause that…

— Emily Thorne

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

— Menander