Motive Power Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in… — Subhas Chandra Bose
When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power. — Alexis Carrel
To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are… — Mabel Collins
The motive power of democracy is love — Henri Bergson
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. — Berenice Abbott
Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite. — Neville Goddard
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to… — Kate Chopin
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I… — Swami Vivekananda
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
The motive power is the cause of all life. — Leonardo da Vinci
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. — St. Jerome
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is loveâ€”love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the… — Martha Finley
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. — Walter Scott
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could… — Calvin Coolidge
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a… — Oscar Wilde
Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important and… — Calvin Coolidge
What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of… — Hermann von Helmholtz

Who Wrote These Motive Power Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Motive Power Quotes as follows: