#despise

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#despise #fatigue #great #habit #pain

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#been #bonds #break #could #country

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#arts #convention #conventional #despise #enemy

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#despise #dropped #gave #i #into

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. ↗

— George Mason

#labor #performed #poor #slaves

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#himself #nonetheless #respects #who #whoever

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#despised #eyes #faithful #i #i am

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#greatness #mediocrity #needed #politics

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough