Top 42 Compensations Quotes
#1. She had been overtipping for as long as she'd had money. These small compensations for how fortunate she'd been.
Emily St. John Mandel
#2. I love chocolate cake for breakfast," Peggy stalls, "it sets me up for the day. A little decadence is good for the soul." She's been eating more cake than usual, lately. Impending death does have compensations after all, then, if only chocolate-covered ones.
Menna Van Praag
#3. I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me so many wonderful roles. It's a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment?
Alfred Lunt
#4. One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.
Tom Clancy
#5. Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.
Lord Chesterfield
#6. Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.
Calvin Coolidge
#7. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards.
Ruskin Bond
#8. Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made along the way. Life is a kind of swings and roundabouts situation; if you can't kick a football you turn to other pursuits.
John McLeod
#9. Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.
Twyla Tharp
#10. That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.
Rebecca Goldstein
#11. Old age has its compensations. More than ever I see each day as a gift from God. It is also a time to reflect back on God's goodness over the years and an opportunity to assure others that God truly is faithful to His promises.
Billy Graham
#12. Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that sets to right all imbalances. Why do you think the saints seldom had the temporal power that we mistakenly identify with the fruits of justice? Do you think they needed it, or cared?
Mark Helprin
#13. Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.
Edith Wharton
#14. There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#15. Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
Marilyn Monroe
#16. For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
Mary Hunter Austin
#18. There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.
John Christopher
#19. The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger
so it be done for love, and not forostentation
do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
Abraham Lincoln
#21. One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#25. The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. Male makeup is men's titles, status and paying for dates. Makeup is what both sexes use to bridge the gap between the power they have and the power they'd like to have. Both male and female makeup are compensations for feelings of powerlessness.
Warren Farrell
#27. When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.
Timothy Ferriss
#28. Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember.
Charlotte Lamb
#29. But what is the use of being an independent old maid if you can't be silly when you want to, and when it doesn't hurt anybody? A person must have some compensations.
L.M. Montgomery
#30. Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
Phyllis McGinley
#31. Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
James Anthony Froude
#32. Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. It
Margaret Atwood
#33. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
Margaret Atwood
#34. Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
George Santayana
#35. With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
#36. There were the meaningless greetings the humans called "formalities": insincere inquiries into the state of health, nebulous benedictions and hopes for past well-being; all compensations for the lack of human Mediators.
Larry Niven
#37. My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club.
Tiger Woods
#38. Belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.
Vera Brittain
#39. Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations ...
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
#40. Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.
Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon
#41. It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good job of what is after all a matter of very small consequence.
W. Somerset Maugham
