Country Quote by Aravind Adiga

“Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance of our…

— Aaron B. Powell

The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

— Thomas Paine

There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of…

— Alexander Hamilton

The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful…

— George Hackenschmidt

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind…

— Orison Swett Marden

“What can defeat a strong man who believes in himself and cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or written down? Poverty cannot dishearten him,…

— Orison Swett Marden

It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We’re not even scratching the…

— Clifton Anderson

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

— Charles Spurgeon