Quotes of Confer - somelinesforyou

“ I don't do awards. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. ”

- Demosthenes

“ Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one. ”

- John Churton Collins

“ You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. ”

- Horace

“ When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ We find very few ungrateful people when we are able to confer favors. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ”

- Sir William Temple

“ The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Superiority to fate is difficult to gain, 'tis not conferred of any, but possible to earn. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. ”

- Bayard Rustin

“ If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it. ”

- Ashleigh Brilliant

“ Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Awards don't really mean much. ”

- Uta Hagen

“ Also, I've already won all the awards. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. ”

- Ellis Peters

“ People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ He is great who confers the most benefits. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. ”

- Sallust

“ A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. ”

- Sir Richard Steele

“ A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. ”

- Lord Greville

“ That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. ”

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“ He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ”

- Kenneth Baker

“ He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ”

- Tertullian

“ It is the nature of men to be as much bound by the benefits that they confer as by those they receive. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. ”

- David Lloyd George
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