Compensation Quotes

179 quotes by 158 authors

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. — Lord Acton
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
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
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. — Abraham Lincoln
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense. — Phyllis McGinley
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
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
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana
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
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made. — Nikola Tesla
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
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
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
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
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
That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre. — Rebecca Goldstein
One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics. — William Feather

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