Delight Quote by Samuel Richardson

To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly…

— B. C. Forbes

“In this world, where the strong prey upon the weak, and the cunning manipulate the naive, it is imperative that you become the master…

— Kevin L. Michel

“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and…

— Will Durant

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Sense gratification sprouts from the Ego within, as a deflated human nature. And when this ego is crashed it can go either way....it can…

— Rita A. Barnes-Enlightened Light Worker

The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of…

— Alain de Botton

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

— Anonymous

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who…

— Katherine Boo

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

— William Butler Yeats

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of…

— George Jean Nathan

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

— Wendell Berry