In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
I've spent eight years in Congress avoiding moral language. I represent a swing district. I believe profoundly in not challenging the motives… — Jim Himes Copy Share Image
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live.… — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The desire of one, and the motive of one in being sensible would be high.. but altogether the ascense and motive is… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
“another motive as well—namely, to preserve her voice, which had a quality of expressiveness I have rarely encountered. Customarily she spoke with… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
