Books Quote by Voltaire

“The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.”

— Voltaire

"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new,…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled…

— Mark the Evangelist

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

— Voltaire

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims…

— George Washington

Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal…

— Alvan Macauley

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting…

— Og Mandino

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

— Jim Rohn

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

— Margaret Mead

Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

— Paul Wolfowitz

Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes…

— Harold Ramis