Quotes About Inducement

#1. Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Judith Martin

#2. I went as a passenger, having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.

Charles Bradlaugh

#4. Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.

George Kaiser

#5. Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of "mansions" as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

Christopher Hitchens

#6. It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

Samuel Johnson

#7. The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

Lord Chesterfield

#9. The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

Peggy Noonan

#10. The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

John Maynard Keynes

#11. I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

Charles Sturt

#12. She said I would find Oswald out in the grounds, and such is a mother's love that she spoke as if that were a bit of a boost for the grounds and an inducement to go there.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

Hosea Ballou

#14. Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

Charles Stanley

#15. Internal imperatives are all the more powerful and therefore all the more of an inducement to revolt.

Milan Kundera

#16. Sweetness. That was the first surprise. He'd heard so many tart words from these lips . . . but her kiss was sweet. Cool and sweet, with a hint of true decadence beneath. Like a sun-ripened plum at the height of summer. Ready to fall into his hand at the slightest inducement.

Tessa Dare

#17. If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Will Rogers

#18. Someone who is motivated solely by the desire to become rich and famous might struggle hard to get ahead but will rarely have enough inducement to work beyond what is necessary, to venture beyond what is already known.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#19. She realized very soon that the desire to forget him was the strongest inducement for remembering him.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#20. A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.

Joseph Goebbels

#21. Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

Jane Kaczmarek

#22. I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

David Ricardo

#23. I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

George Eliot

#24. Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#25. A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Daniel Webster

#26. We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Jean Toomer

#27. I imagined you with rapt admiration,
Especially when I first saw you on my life station.

Ritika Chhabra

#28. I think that as long as you have one decent parent ... maybe you should consider cutting the poison out of your life.

Brenna Aubrey

#29. I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#30. I told you to make weapons, Taim. Show me just how deadly they are. Disperse the Shaido. Break them.

Robert Jordan

#31. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

Maxine Waters