The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever God gives you, happiness or sadness, there is a motive behind it. — Rekha Copy Share Image
Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives. — Grant Cardone Copy Share Image
“Multi oameni, cand incearca sa justifice de ce au sau nu au o anumita credinta, deseori au multe opinii in loc de… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
For the majority of instances where money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others, the real underlying motive is a… — James Allen Copy Share Image
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to… — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
“I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though on vastly different levels) is dedicated to music. That… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard… — Ferdinand Christian Baur Copy Share Image
Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's… — Robert S. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part. — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I keep people around me that have the freedom to challenge my heart and motive. — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
