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Quotes about Compensation

a horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums.
— George Eliot
Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To whatever extent your mind is aligned with love, you will receive divine compensation for any lack in your material existence. From spiritual substance will come material manifestation. This is not just a theory; it is a fact. It is a law by which the universe operates. I call it the Law of Divine Compensation.
— Marianne Williamson
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.
— George Clooney
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.
— AW Pink
IF this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing? And why should Black men accept these roles as correct ones, or anything other than a narcotic promise encouraging acceptance of other facets of their own oppression?
— Audre Lorde
Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence woudl probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.
— LM Montgomery
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
— Abraham Lincoln
This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
The degree to which you will ever be financially compensated is inexorably linked to the obvious greater value (OGV) that you create for someone else.
— Andy Andrews