Incurring Quotes:

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

- George Meredith

topic: Done, Enjoy, Incurring, Sentimentality

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Funny, Music, Humor, Incurring

May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

- Zachary Taylor

source: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.90, e-artnow sro

topic: Country, Inspirational Life, Responsibility, Incurring

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

- Chanakya

topic: Grief, Loss, Causes, Incurring

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

- Frederick Douglass

source: Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

topic: Respect, Fear, Integrity, True To Myself, Moral Hazard

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

- Henry James

topic: Book, Beer, Winning, Incurring

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.420, Cambridge University Press

topic: War, Long, Suffering, Incurring

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

- Confucius

topic: Littles, Spirituality, Resentment, Incurring

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

- Plutarch

topic: Integrity, Men, Risk, Noble Man, Incurring

As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

- Jonathan Karl

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Powerful, Mean, Wrath, Powerful Person, Incurring

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

- Elizabeth Aston

topic: Secret, Finding Yourself, Criticism, Incurring, Dearest Friend

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

topic: Addresses, Gains, Degrees, Incurring

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Death, Believe, Tests, Sudden Death, Incurring

The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.

- Pierre Trudeau

topic: Teacher, Teaching, Risk, Jesuit, Incurring

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

- William Faulkner

source: William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl

topic: Book, Reading, Men, Incurring

Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possibly the incurring of any new debt.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Government, Principles, Attention, Debt By Founding Fathers, Incurring

Too much of the income gains go to too few people, even though all of the stakeholders worked together to make their companies successful. By failing to put enough income into more hands, the GDP grows slower and consumers manage to meet their needs by incurring high levels of debt.

- Philip Kotler

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Successful, Hands, Gdp, Stakeholder, Incurring

We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit. . . . We, therefore, repeat our counsel . . . to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth. . . . Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt.

- Wilford Woodruff

topic: Running, Fashion, Children, Incurring

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

- Carlo M. Cipolla

topic: Stupid, Loss, Groups, Stupid Person, Incurring

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Government, Sight, People, Witchcraft, Recovering

In my opinion, according to the law of defamation prevalent in this country (U.S.A.), you cannot in any way participate in the publication of the 'Forces Secrètes de la Révolution' by de Poncins, without incurring grave legal responsibility with risk of damages...The personalities and associations criticized are so powerful in this country that very costly lawsuits would certainly result from the publication of the book.

- Leon V. DePoncins

topic: Country, Powerful, Book, Lawsuit, Defamation

Gradual and moderate warming brings benefits as well as incurring costs. These benefits and costs will not, of course, be felt uniformly throughout the world; the colder regions of the world will be more affected by the benefits, and the hotter regions by the costs.

- Nigel Lawson

source: Nigel Lawson (2009). “AN Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming”, p.68, The Overlook Press

topic: Cost, Benefits, World, Hotter, Incurring

As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to our clients for a quarter century-a dollar invested at inception in our largest fund is now worth over 94 dollars, a 20% net compound return. We have achieved this not by incurring high risk as financial theory would suggest, but by deliberately avoiding or hedging the risks that we identified.

- Seth Klarman

topic: Risk, Return, Clients, Hedging, Inception

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

- Plutarch

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 166), 1895.

topic: Courage, Men, Evil, Good Actions, Incurring

There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God

- Joseph Fielding Smith

topic: Men, Kingdoms, Joseph Smith, Incurring

One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.

- Klaus Mann

topic: Wind, Today, Becoming, Eros, Forms Of Love

I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.

- Christopher Vokes

source: "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 76), 1985.

topic: Writing, People, Decision, Incurring

A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

source: "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, as translated by Luigi Ricci (1903), 1513.

topic: Art, Spring, War, Incurring

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Responsibility, Giving, Advice, Incurring, Giving Advice

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

- William Godwin

topic: Men, Rights, Guilt, Omitting, Incurring

Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.

- William Moulton Marston

topic: Powerful, Book, Keys, Finesse, Reverberation

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (2015). “Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Works of Melville”, p.201, 谷月社

topic: Evil, Risk, Desire, Benevolent, Incurring