The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve. — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
I ago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.” — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The Softness of a person's Nature Doesn't mean Weakness, because Nothing is Softer than Water but its Force can Break the Strongest… — Syed Mustafa Faraz Ahmad Copy Share Image
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We must not only do what is right. We must act for the right reasons. The modern term is good motive. The… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now… — Joe Bastardi Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Believe me, I grow daily more convinced that the atmosphere is an inexhaustible source of countless beauties. It is up to we… — Mario de Sa-Carneiro Copy Share Image
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, you leftists: you're not the only people whose motives are pure. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
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