Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising. ”

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. ”

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling. ”

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues. ”

I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness. ”

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. ”

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it. ”

I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living. ”

Technique is of less interest than character and story. ”

I went to Catholic school, and there was this teacher, a Brother, who saw I could go either way, good or bad. He took an interest in me and got me to do a play. I got hooked on acting, and it gave me something constructive to do. I had a lot of energy. ”