Immanuel Kant Quotes, Work Quotes, Vanity Quotes

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

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There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

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If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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Labor is God's education.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

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the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

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The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

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Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

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What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

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There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

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