Into Motivation

Quotes by Dante "Che', seggendo in piuma, In fama non si vien, ne' sotto coltre. (For fame is not won by lying on a feather bed nor under a canopy.)" Quotes by Sir Noel Coward "Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington". Quotes by Stephen Grover Cleveland "They love him most for the enemies ha has made". Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill "[On Lord Charles Beresford] He is one of those orators, of whom it was well said, "Before they get up they do not know ... Read More

Quotes by Confucius "To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away". Quotes by Karl von Clausewitz "War is the continuation of politics by other means. war belongs, not to the Arts and Sciences, but to the province of social life". Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is ... Read More

Quotes by Byron Lord George Gordon "There comes, For ever something between us and what, We deem our happiness. Happiness was born a twin. Then the few whose spirits float above the wreck of happiness, Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess: The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain, The shore to which their shiver'd sail shall never stretch again". Quotes by Robert Browning "Make us happy and you make us good". Quotes by Sir Thomas ... Read More

Quotes by Colly Cibber "If I can please myself with my own follies, have I not a plentiful provision for life?" Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes "He's a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals". Quotes by Thomas Carlyle "A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven million, mostly fools". Quotes by Byron Lord George Gordon "I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. We are the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us, and steal from us; yet ... Read More

Quotes by Cyrill Connolly "Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out". Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink: Water, water, everywhere. Nor any drop to drink". Quotes by Irvin Cobb "[On "corn licker"] It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo, it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp". Quotes by Gilbert ... Read More

Quotes by George Chapman "Trust not a reconciled friend, for good turns cannot blot out old grudges". Quotes by Susannah Centlivre "Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined". Quotes by Willa Cather "Only solitary men know the full joy of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything". Quotes by George Canning "But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!" Quotes by Byron Lord George Gordon "Friendship is Love without his wings". Quotes ... Read More

Quotes by John Caldwell Calhoun "The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party". Quotes by Byron Lord George Gordon "When a proposal is made to emancipate or relieve, you hesitate, you deliberate for years, you temporize and tamper with the minds of men; but a death-bill must be passed off-hand, without a thought of the consequences. The impression of Parliament upon ... Read More