Into Motivation

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson "People say law but they mean wealth. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?" Quotes by John Dryden "Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate". Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli "Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each ... Read More

Quotes by Joan Didion "To believe in "the greater good" is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension. Ask  anyone committed to a Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins". Quotes by Charles Dickens "Your sister is given to governmen"t. Quotes by John Emerich Edward Dalberg "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...There ... Read More

Quotes by Charles Dickens "As it is, I don't think I can do with anything under a female markis. I might keep up with a young 'ooman o' large property as hadn't a title, if she made wery fierce love to me. Not else". Quotes by Dante "The love that moves the sun and the other stars". Quotes by Richard Crashaw "Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death". Quotes by William Cowper "England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!" Quotes by Abraham Cowley "Love ... Read More

Quotes by John Dryden "Yet dull religion teaches us content; But when we ask it where that blessing dwells, It points to pedant colleges and cells. In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin. Gods they had tried of every shape and size, That godsmiths could produce or priests devise. So over-violent or over-civil, that every man with him was God or Devil. Did wisely from expensive sins refrain, And never broke the Sabbath but for gain. ... Read More

Quotes by Charles Dickens "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature". Quotes by Destouches "Those not present are always wrong". Quotes by Rene Descartes "Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of ... Read More

Quotes by Andre Gide "True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joy of others'. Quotes by Christopher Fry "I apologize, for boasting but once you know my qualities I can drop back into a quite brilliant Humility'. Quotes by Sir Clement Freud "If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer". Quotes by Francis Scott Fitzgerald "Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this mine: I am ... Read More

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson "To fill the hour - that is happiness". Quotes by George Eliot "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history". Quotes by John Dryden "Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today". Quotes by Charles Dickens "In came Mrs Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile". Quotes by Dante "No grater sorrow than to recall in our misery the time when we were happy". Quotes by ... Read More