Into Motivation

Quotes by Honore de Balzac "So long as there are differences between one moment of pleasure and another a man can go on being happy with the same woman". Quotes by Jane Austen "Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common. Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!" Quotes by St Augustine of Hippo "Here we are called happy when we have peace, such little peace as can be had in a good life; but that happiness, ... Read More

Quotes by Francis Bacon "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship". Quotes by Aristotle "The perfect friendship is that between good men, alike in their virtue. When men are friends there is no need of justice between them, but though they be just they still need friendship. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. We should wish to behave to our friends as we ... Read More

Quotes by Russell Wayne Baker "The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb". Quotes by Francis Bacon "It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral". Quotes by Clement Richard Attlee "Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking". Quotes by Aristotle "A democracy is a government ... Read More

Quotes by Stanley Baldwin "A platitude  is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it". Quotes by Walter Bagehot "He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr and the intellect of an advocate". Quotes by Francis Bacon "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer". Quotes by Matthew Arnold "Truth sits upon the lips of dying men". Quotes by Aristotle "Plato is dear to me, but ... Read More

Simone de Beauvoir "It is not in giving but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills". Phineas Taylor Barnum "There's sucker born every minute". Sir Alfred Jules Ayer "Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?" St Augustine of Hippo "He that is good is free, though he be a slave; he that is evil is a slave, ... Read More