Into Motivation

Quotes by Rene Descartes "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues". Quotes by Thomas Dekker "The best of men, that e'ere wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit. The first true gentleman that ever breathed". Quotes by Dalai Lama "It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practise the virtues of compassion and tolerance". Quotes by Quentin Crisp "Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to ... Read More

Quotes by Charles Lamb "For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die". Quotes by Franzs Kafka "There are two cardinal sins from which others spring: impatience and laziness". Quotes by Carl Gustav Jung "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism". Quotes by James VI "[On tobacco smoking] A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins". Quotes by Elbert Hubbard "An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness". Quotes by ... Read More

Quotes by Dame Iris Murdoch "Humility is not a peculiar habit of self-effacement, rather like having an inaudible voice, it is a selfless respect for reality and one of the most difficult and central of all the virtues". Quotes by Michel de Montaigne "One may be humble out of pride." Quotes by Thomas Middieton "Lands mortgag'd may return, and more esteem'd, but honesty once pawned, is ne'er redeemed". Quotes by George Meredith "Want of courage is want of sense". Quotes by William Somerset Maugham "Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-wracking ... 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 Seneca "Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore". Quotes by John Selden "Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear". Quotes by John Ruskin "Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and ... Read More

Quotes by Gilbert Keith "Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible". Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes "Diligence is the mother of good fortune; and the goal of a good intention was never reached through its opposite, laziness". Quotes by Joyce Lunel Cary "Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once". Quotes by Jimmy Carter "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many ... Read More

Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead "Here's a rule I recommend. Never practise two vices at once". Quotes by Hannah Arendt "What makes it plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core". Quotes by Anonymous "What you do when you ... Read More