A good intention clothes itself with power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: power intention motive

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
Rabelais You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: wisdom motive attitude character

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: motive inferiority gratitude obligation

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: success purpose motive value meaning

They're only truly great who are truly good.
George Chapman Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: greatness character integrity motive

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
J.M. Barrie The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: motive suspicion self-confidence attitude thought

The adult looks to deed, the child to love.
Hindustani proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: love action kindness perspective motive

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned--not to see what is not.
Maria Mitchell Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: assumptions expectations honesty integrity motive reality self-delusion

The how-to-succeed literature would have us forever looking for mountains to conquer. But the world's doers aren't interested in conquering a mountain -- they want to be conquered by it, to fall in love with the adventure and the discovery.


Dale Dauten "Striving to be best is a sure way to the top" by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, 7/17/2000
Categories: goals success passion fulfillment meaning purpose motive

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it that doth the hurt.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: character integrity honesty motive self-delusion self-awareness self-acceptance lie truth reality trust