We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. – Peter Drucker
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault
Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. – Rainer Maria Rilke
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau
He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. – Ring Lardner
Hate the sin and love the sinner. – Mohandas Gandhi
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. – Sydney Smith
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. – Don Herold
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. – William Allen White
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford
The first requisite for immortality is death. – Stanislaw J. Lec
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. – Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. – Thomas Paine
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin (Thank you, Kyle.)
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Novelties please less than they impress. – Byron, Don Juan, 1824
Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry. – Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815
