Into Motivation

Quotes by Laurence Sterne "I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me". Quotes by Stanislaus "Men and women, in marrying, make a vow to love one another. Would it not be better for their happiness if they made a vow to please one another?" Quotes by Toblas Smollett "A seafaring man may have a sweetheart in every port; but he should steer ... Read More

Quotes by Phillip Dormer Stanhope "If you have wit, use to place, and not to hurt; you may shine, like the sun in the temperate zones, without scorching. Here it is wished for; under the Line, it is dreaded.Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another." Quotes ... Read More

Quotes by Patrick White "Virtue is...frequently in the nature of an iceberg, the other parts of it submerged". Quotes by Herbert George Wells "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo". Quotes by Anne Tyler "Oh, what is it that makes some people more virtuous than others? Is it something they know from birth? Don't they ever feel that zingy, thrilling urge to smash the world to bits? Isn't it possible, maybe, that good people are just luckier people?" Quotes by Anthony Trollope "As for conceit, what man will do ... Read More

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley "We'll have tea and toast, Custards for supper, and an endless host, Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such lady-like luxuries". Quotes by George Bernard Shaw "I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. There is no love sincerer than the love of food". Quotes by William Shakespeare "There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it a felony to drink small beer. ... Read More

George Bernard Shaw When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. You think that are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued; that it is your part to woo, to persuade, to prevail, to overcome. Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked-down quarry, the destined. William Shakespeare She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore may be won; She ... Read More

Quotes by Tacitus "Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from". Quotes by Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe "So this is the little lady who made this big war". Quotes by Adlai Stevenson "Falsity withered in her presence. Hypocrisy left the room...She would rather light candles than curse the darkness". Quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope "The fame of a conqueror; a cruel fame, that arises from the destruction of the human species". Quotes by Edmund Spenser "Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, On Fame's ... Read More

Quotes by Arnold Toynbee "America is a large, friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair". Quotes by Hunter Stockton Thompson "America...just a nation of two hundred used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable". Quotes by Paul Theroux "The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness". Quotes by Robert Louis "For that is the mark ... Read More