Avarice Quote by Jonathan Swift

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

— William James

If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

— Seneca the Younger

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then…

— Philip Zimbardo

Our mind is the central path of good and evil. The choice we make is the seed of thought. Success and failure are its…

— Deapostlelaud

“We human beings are paradoxes. We love the fruits of commitment, love, and order. Yet a dark side of us is often anticommitment, antilove,…

— Gordon MacDonald

You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself…

— Sydney, Lady Morgan

“If you see good circumstances around you, you tend to feel good and attract good things to you. If you see negative things around…

— david che

“A corrupt mind turns everything to its advantage.”

— Hisham Matar

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in…

— James Allen