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«The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.»
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
| Keywords:
floods, flow, hesitate, moment of truth, motives, No Policy, policy, To Tell the Truth
«There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
| Keywords:
asserted, asserts, Chaos, cycle, cycles, cycle on, cycling, evening star, mistaking, motives, movement, seasons, stance, The Movement, The Seasons, turning
«Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.»
Author: Katherine Whitehorn
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Consequences
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Great A, liable, motives, preoccupation
«The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumes, attractiveness, bees, briskly, butterfly, contribute, decode, decodes, derives, enact, enacted, enacting, flew, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, motives, perturbed, perturbing, perturbs, stung, symmetry
«The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.»
«The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
Action The, examines, human action, impressed, limitations, motives, springs, unconscious
«The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
committed, cover, covered up, cover for, cover up, crimes, cruel, crueler, equally, heinous, history, motives, noble, On the Cover, record, religion, The Records, under
«The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
approach, effectiveness, fundamentally, futile, improve, improving, inside out, interpersonal, interpersonal relationships, keeping, motives, paradigm, paradigms, personality, personal relationship, personal relationships, Personal self, precede, private, private parts, promises, recede, recedes, receding, Relationships, victories
«Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
affairs, chestnut, chestnuts, cunning, damage, fingers, forced, guard, intent, intentions, intent on, motives, of your own, the fire, watchfulness
«To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives»
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