Compensation Quotes - Page 11

• Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

  Colleen Hanabusa

  Our World, Shapes, Recognition

  "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

  Bel Kaufman

  Children, Differences, Want

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.193, Open Road Media

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• Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

  Roland Barthes

  Vision, Age, Today

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• Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

  Stevie Wonder

  Artist, Talking, Law

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club.

  Tiger Woods

  Dad, Golf, Swings

  "Online Extra: A Dream of a Driver for Tiger (extended)". Interview with Roger O. Crockett, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Successful, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

  Jamie Dimon

  Mistake, Support, Tough

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• I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Age, Moments

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, School, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Men, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

  George Sand

  Punishment, Misery, Prosperity

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.13

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• Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Giving, Grace, Doubt

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.155

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• The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

  Samuel Johnson

  Suffering, Peculiar, Providence

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale ; The Vision of Theodore ; The Fountains, a Fairy Tale”, p.32

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• Every season of life has its compensations.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Life, Seasons Of Life, Seasons

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• The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Heart, Artist, Chance

  Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”

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• belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

  Vera Brittain

  Children, Parent, Age

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• Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

  J. G. Holland

  Mother, Father, Progress

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.234

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• There is compensation in all things.

  Anna Leonowens

  All Things

  Anna Leonowens (2009). “The Romance of the Harem”, p.114, Applewood Books

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• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  Lois Wyse

  Winning, Way, Failing

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• Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives you touch.

  Bob Burg

  Bob Burg, John David Mann (2015). “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.32, Penguin

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• If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.95

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• There is a day of sunny rest
  For every dark and troubled night;
  And grief may hide an evening guest,
  But joy shall come with early light.

  William C. Bryant

  Grief, Dark, Night

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• Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Vicious, Extremes

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• We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  God, Father, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 270), 1895.

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• If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

  David Hume

  Common Sense, Novelty, Admiration

  David Hume, J. B. Schneewind (1983). “An Enquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals”, p.56, Hackett Publishing

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