Ill Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “In the motive lies the good or ill.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ill Inspirational Lying Motive
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives? — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do. — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share Image
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Im a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, Ill be a farmer. Its something that Ive wanted to do since… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
