The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
“Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Let your light shine before others, sothat they may see your good works.” So the motive at stake is not simply whether… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“To encapsulate the prosecution’s theory concerning motive, a central element in the case, he offered a quote from William Congreve that he… — Paul Alexander Copy Share Image
Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Obviously, Jews gain certain advantages by promoting the Holocaust idea. It inspires tremendous financial aid for Israel. It makes organized Jewry almost… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality, — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive. — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
![“Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view…” quote by Wilford Woodruff](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8c1/wilford-woodruff-13197_children_some-may-say-journal-keeping-is-a-great_1788809.jpg)
