Benefactors Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Benefactors Egotism Inspirational Relationship
“The role of benefactor is worse than thankless, it's the role of a victim, Doctor, a sacrificial victim, yes, they want your blood, Doctor,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
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Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous disorder and a disastrous cleavage, because the contrariety of the appetites to be satisfied will prevent the satisfaction of any single one. Clearly, then, the effect of the pursuit of private ends under cover of the public good… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want to have your way with it. This wrestling, sinewy and particular as its wrestler, enlarges us as we read our way into her life with its incisive insights and explorations. Can one wrestle meditatively? This author has learned… — Luci Shaw Copy Share
Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity… — Donald Wildmon Copy Share
Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor... — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the government program do not know that that is the source of their problem. The good effects are visible. The bad effects are invisible. The good effects generate votes. The bad effects generate discontent, which is as likely to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was Young. And my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share
