
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 1, Start in Life.
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Nous aurions souvent honte de nos plus belles actions, si le monde voyoit tous les motifs qui les produisent.
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Maxim 409.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Nous aurions souvent honte de nos plus belles actions, si le monde voyoit tous les motifs qui les produisent.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 1, Start in Life.
The Review and Herald (15 April 1880); also in Mind, Character, and Personality (1977), Vol. 2, p. 789
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 420
“Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 7, “Failure Is the Way Forward” (p. 160)
44th Proposition, as translated by Mary Ilford in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1968), pp. 118-119
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 383.