Top 33 Procures Quotes
#1. An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.
Theodor Mommsen
#2. The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it ... eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
Plutarch
#3. Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
Horace
#4. Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
Edward Young
#5. Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men,
James Smithson
#6. Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all
George Washington
#7. That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.
Benjamin Franklin
#8. By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
Jonathan Edwards
#9. Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
Washington Irving
#10. For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people.
Plutarch
#11. Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
Samuel Johnson
#12. His ghost comes back to be remembered. If he can't be in this life, he procures a way to stay in orbit, and in that way, is never forgotten.
Donna Lynn Hope
#13. That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Francis Hutcheson
#15. Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love
Ovid
#16. Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
John Balguy
#17. Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.
Joseph Butler
#18. 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.
Theodore Roosevelt
#19. It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
William Shenstone
#20. Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
Helen Keller
#21. Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#22. Most people, whether bull or bear, when they are right, are right for the wrong reason, in my opinion.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#23. It's a hard slog doing promotion, but its nothing compared to working in a factory packing meat pies or whatever.
Felix Buxton
#24. When we move about the planet seeing with the eyes of the heart, we connect with humanity on the deepest level possible and remember one of our soul's promises: to bring the wonders of Heaven, which reside in the Sacred Heart, to earth in physical form.
Molly Friedenfeld
#25. I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.
Barry Bonds
#26. Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
Katherine Heigl
#29. Well, there are many things, whenever you look back, that you would've done differently. We're all human. We do our best at the time. I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country. We came close, but we couldn't.
Condoleezza Rice
#30. It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
Bob Nelson
#31. With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity.
Franz Stampfl
#33. She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you sing and speak of blooms and petals that come back after a long time of being winter-still, you don't have to think about things that don't.
Ally Condie
