Into Motivation

Quotes by William Somerset Maugham "It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future". Quotes by Andrew Marvell "But at my back I always hear, Time's winged chariot drawing near; And yonder all before us lie, Deserts of vast eternity". Quotes by Christopher Marlowe "Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come, O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and ... Read More

Quotes by Isaac Goldberg "Displomacy is to do and say, The nastiest thing in the nicest way". Quotes by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert "When I was a lad I served a term, As office boy to an Attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle to carefullee, That now I am the ruler of the Queen's Navee! I always voted at my party's call, And I ... Read More

Quotes by Plato "Democracy...is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a kind of quality to equals and unequals alike. The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the State. Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class". Quotes by William Pitt "The ... Read More

Quotes by Bill Bryson "Now Stonewall Jackson is a man worth taking an interest in. Few people in history have achieved greater fame in a shorter period with less useful activity in the brainbox than General Thomas J. Jackson". Quotes by Jean de La Bruyere "The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets""That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with ... Read More

Quotes by James Otis "Taxation without representation is tyranny". Quotes by George Orwell "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru "The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer". Quotes by Thomas Moore "The minds of some of our own statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the strong light there is shed upon them". Quotes by John Stuart Mill "The worth of a state, in the ... Read More

Quotes by John Ruskin "Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition, the laws of death. The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education". Quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau "If there were a nation of gods they would be governed democratically, but so perfect a government is not suitable to men". Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt "The best executive is the one who has ... Read More

Quotes by John Milton "And feel That I am happier than I know". Quotes by John Stuart Mill "Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so". Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken "The only really people are married women and single men". Quotes by Karl Marx "The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion". Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "A long happiness loses by ... Read More