Niggardliness Quotes & Sayings

Our mission statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but a creed we live by every day. You can't expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don't exceed the employees' expectations of management. — Howard Schultz

Hear the other side. — Saint Augustine

That's the way Chris lives, warning everyone who gets close of the lightning that may strike. Never touch anything, never make a mark. But Anatole can't live that way. The world's too lonely a place: he has to touch things, he has to put his arms around them. — Paul Russell

Moscow was an enormous city, but there was nowhere to go in it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. — Alexander Pope

He'd tried to talk to you about anarchy yesterday but his English and your French conspired against the dialog. — Ian Rankin

ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq. We have to take it seriously. They've shown in Paris what they can do in an organized fashion. — Barack Obama

The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him. — Ramana Maharshi

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed. — Albert Schweitzer

Far be it from me to suggest that geologists should be reckless in their drafts upon the bank of Time; but nothing whatever is gained, and very much is lost, by persistent niggardliness in this direction. — Charles Lapworth

The secret of life is to see everything with a non-serious eye, but to be absolutely involved. It's like a game. — Sadghuru

The dead weren't angry or lost. They knew exactly what was up. It was the living that didn't have a clue. — Amy Harmon

The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all the diversity and differences we see of nationalities, of religions, of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful diversities, for they are only on the surface. And deep down we share the same humanity, the global humanity. — Satish Kumar

It was evident that Madame Restell not only liked to do as she pleased, but to talk about it as well. — Edward Rutherfurd

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness. — Miguel De Cervantes

Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward. — Max Lucado

I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films. — Rick Moody

Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life! — D.H. Lawrence

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. — Henry George