Compensation Quotes
179 quotes by 158 authors
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
— Lord Acton
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
— William Barclay
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Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in…
— Bob Beauprez
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets…
— David Cameron
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The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80…
— Jerry Jasinowski
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
— Phyllis McGinley
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of…
— George Sand
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Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
— George Santayana
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Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you…
— Max Lucado
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My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
— Nikola Tesla
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We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though…
— Edward William Lane
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Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for…
— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
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Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered…
— Ingrid Betancourt
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That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.
— Rebecca Goldstein
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One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.
— William Feather
Who Wrote These Compensation Quotes
158 authors contributed a total of 179 Compensation Quotes, led by these top contributors: