#decent

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#conceit #decent #desire #earn #far

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#characteristics #decent #grateful #gratitude #happier

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living. ↗

— Kid Rock

#basement #bought #continuum #decent #fourteen

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#court #decent #had #i #i think

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#because #business #businesses #creed #decently

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#decent #die #family #heard #i

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal. ↗

— Karl Rove

#culture #decent #hopeful #ideal #important

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#britain #decent #enable #enjoy #hard

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government. ↗

— Mark Udall

#country #crisis #decent #decent man #devoted

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#any #burn #continued #decent #europe