Ability Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Objectivity in healthy relationships encourages each person to be responsible for his own choices and actions and the consequences of them.”

— Anonymous

There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle…

— Joseph Addison

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

— Agnes Repplier

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy…

— Napoleon Hill

“Thus, in the realm of human relationships, a different form of pleasure is experienced, a different sort of motivation is involved, and a different…

— Ayn Rand

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal…

— Helen Rowland

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds…

— Sherwood Anderson

Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue…

— Ayn Rand

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed…

— George Santayana

“Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself…

— Ernest Becker