Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. — Oscar Wilde
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. — Henry Ward Beecher
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. — J. P. Morgan
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it. — Alexander Maclaren
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. — Charles Darwin
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency. — Paul Samuelson
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. — Leon Trotsky
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. — J. C. Watts
Good Motivational Quotes
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. — Gordon B. Hinckley
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. — William Penn
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer. — Branch Rickey
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. — Saint Augustine
God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey. — Melanie Klein
Whatever is good for you soul, do that.
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind. — Wayne Dyer
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — John D. Rockefeller
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground. — Madam C. J. Walker
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. — Jean Plaidy
Do Something Nice Quotes
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. — John Harvey-Jones
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure. — Garry Trudeau
It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters. — Katie Holmes
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity. — Natalie Portman
Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that's always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from...it's great. — Jhene Aiko
There's something nice about being able to go to sleep at night saying "You know, tomorrow I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that...." I think that being an activist on this planet is a privilege and a pleasure. — Assata Shakur
Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. — Henny Youngman
They misunderstand us, they unwittingly belittle us, they do something that they think is nice that instead just makes us mad. And those are the good ones. — Joanne Lipman
It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously. — Laura Linney
We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them. — Mary McGrory
Good Weight Loss Motivation Quotes
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends. — Bob Hope
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. — Elizabeth Berg
Different is good. So don't fit in, don't sit still, don't ever try to be less than what you are.
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. — Andy Rooney
I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets. — Dolly Parton
That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score. — Bob Hope
Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass. — Margaret Cho
Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back. — Robert Quillen
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing. — Lionel Messi
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all. — Henry Ford
Good things come to those who are willing to get up and get it done.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. — W. C. Fields
To make money in stocks, you need to have vision to see them, courage to buy them and patience to hold them. Patience is the rarest of the three. — Thomas Phelps
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee
Don't be afraid to give up the good and go for the great.
Money is a bonus of the job, but it doesn’t always make you happy. — Harry Kane
My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation. — Michael Milken
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. — Charles R. Schwab
I don’t fight for the money, but every person is different. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
Profit Motive Quotes
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit. — Lisa Bonet
Digital transformation helps create new jobs, improves profits, and half of all revenues are influenced by digital. — Vladimer Botsvadze
I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington. — Charles Koch
To me, the word profitable means sustainable – able to sustain a business that has a high degree of excellence. — John W. Henry
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous. — Dale Carnegie
A good coach will make his players see what they can become rather than what they are.
We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it. — Tim Cook
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living. — Walter Rauschenbusch
My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation. — Steve Jobs
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. — Dave Barry
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings
Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C Scott
Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it. — James Naismith
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. — Tony Robbins
Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world. — Larry H. Miller
My future starts when I wake up every morning. — Miles Davis
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. — George Bernard Shaw
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of charity because Jesus Christ tells us that a glass of water would not go unrewarded. You see, therefore, my children, that although we may be quite poor, we can still easily give alms. — John Vianney
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away. — Carrie Fisher
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar
Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine. — Drake
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable. — Roger Bannister
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. — Robert Frost
People will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou
Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life. — Rhonda Byrne
Good things come to those who hustle — Chuck Noll
Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. — Ben Feldman
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game. — Tom Landry
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey. — Michael Josephson
No trainer or coach or expert can make you good or great or unstoppable if you’re not going to do the work, if you’re waiting for someone to make it happen for you. It’s on you. And that’s why I’m telling you all of this, not because I want you to know what I do for my guys, but because I want you to know what you have to do for yourself. — Tim Grover
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