People always try to
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. Eugene Ionesco
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People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. Eugene Ionesco
The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything…. Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner. Errico Malatesta
Reading is good, action is better. Eric Ries
God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer. Edwin Percy Whipple
Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more. Frederick Lenz
Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion. Francis Bacon
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he’s done some good action movies too. Dolph Lundgren
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves. Charles Caleb Colton