“I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.” ThinkingMenWorldEnoughBornResponsibilityMillionsAliveRightsMinesProudPrivilegeHumbleWitGladBe A ManRights And PrivilegesGlad To Be Alive Book:Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner Source: Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner
“If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.” IfsGivingHas BeensWrittenLandProudPrivilegeGrantedForefathers Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon
“I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be.” PeopleWritingKindCareAbleClassProudPrivilegeBreatheEnvyCraftsMotivePleasantHopelessLegendsSpheresDelicateWho CaresTranscendentWorking Women Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.” IfsLooksScienceSpiritWishInterestPleasurePracticePathProudHolyCallingPureAnd LoveRewardsPrivilegeSpeedNobleProfessionPursuitIntenseImmortalHonourPeculiarWorldlyWish YouTruth And Love Author:Joseph Lister