Mainspring Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis…
— Winston Churchill
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We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a…
— Frederic Bastiat
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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
— Samuel Smiles
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If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living…
— Eugene V. Debs
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The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely…
— Ernest Becker
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The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize…
— Carl Rogers
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Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it;…
— James Ramsey Ullman
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God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large…
— John Mason Brown
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
— Max Beerbohm
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Hope is the mainspring of life.
— Henry L. Stimson
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Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.
— Henry L. Stimson
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America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity…
— Ronald Reagan
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All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.
— Miles Franklin
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Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play…
— Italo Calvino
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The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor.…
— Guy Finley
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While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
— Clarence Day
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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the…
— Marquis de Sade
Who Wrote These Mainspring Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Mainspring Quotes as follows: