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“The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.”

Persons Doe Moments Action Evil Leadership Interesting Honor Motive Suspicion Tainted Selfish Motives

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

“The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.”

Men Doe Character Seems Differences Honest Honesty He Man Duty Honor Mere Sake Motive Honest Man

Author:William Shenstone

“It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.”

Has Beens Given Atheism Honor Highest Positive Atheism Remembered Motive Attributes Deities Pathetic

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.”

Ifs World Should May Together Young Class Honor Should Have Gentleman Motive Display Disputes Ardor Emulation Young Gentlemen

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.”

Ifs Feels Pain Honor Gratitude Benefits Charity Motive Philanthropy Philanthropic

Author:Aristotle