Motive Quote by Virgil Download Open image ““The noblest motive is the public good.”” — Virgil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Motive Public good
“To be good is noble. To tell other people how to be good is even nobler and much less trouble” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest benefit in the world? The association with good people. Those who are considered somewhat worthy of reverence by society.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.” — Mollie Marti Copy Share Image
“Leaders are often forced to make determinations they find distasteful for the good of the people they serve.” — Joelle Charbonneau Copy Share Image
“I know enough about human nature to know that people generally prefer to find the most corrupt way of doing things possible, given enough… — Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones Ascent Copy Share Image
“Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them” — Vaibhav Shah Copy Share Image
“If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.” — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. — Virgil Copy Share Image
“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...” — Virgil Copy Share Image
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day” — Virgil Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
