Active Quote by Charles Simmons Download Open image “Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.” — Charles Simmons ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Active Benevolence Dangerous Inheritance Kindness Wealth
Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose. — Eric L. Haney Copy Share Image
A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
“Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose.” — Eric Haney Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
“One of W.A.'s descendants described the mixed blessing of inherited wealth: "I think having such wealth can lead some people to have a lack… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting… — Julian Robertson Copy Share Image
Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth - the man who would make his own fortune no matter… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence and usefulness — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We in US need active intelligence: people being on the streets, people being able to stop and ask questions of individuals that they suspect… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I eat healthy most of the time. Whole foods are the best for you when you are super active, so I get plenty of… — Witney Carson Copy Share Image
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image