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The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

— James Payn

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

— Dorothea Dix

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

— Ayn Rand

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

— Sophocles

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

— Orison Swett Marden

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

— Mercy Otis Warren

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

✗Opposing Perspectives

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

— John F. Kennedy

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

— Jane Austen