Social Icons
QuoteHub — Inspirational Quotes & Aphorisms
  • Home
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • Top Quotes
QuoteHub — Inspirational Quotes & Aphorisms
  • Home
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • Top Quotes

Press ESC to close

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Topic:

Best,

Author:

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Share Article:
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Telegram Share on Whatsapp

Previous Article

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech whether in a senator or an orator.

Next Article

We should often blush for our very best actions if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

More in this CategoryBest

Best
View All Articles
1

I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.

2

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

3

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

4

I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.

View All Articles

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Article Information

Category: Best

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.
  • 2. No but way before that I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah that was an amazing chance. You know at my age to be able to do a music dance video very unusual.
  • 3. I don't believe in happy endings but I do believe in happy travels because ultimately you die at a very young age or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing life.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.
  • 2. If Martin Scorsese calls I am available. And then there the ones well you can just run down the list – any of those Oscar-nominated films they have amazing directors across the board.
  • 3. Working with Omarion is pretty amazing. That's like my brother. He's really cool.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
  • 2. Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
  • 3. But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.
  • 2. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 3. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The process I go through in the art and the architecture I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
  • 2. Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
  • 3. I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
© Diamant Group 2025