He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I've spent eight years in Congress avoiding moral language. I represent a swing district. I believe profoundly in not challenging the motives… — Jim Himes Copy Share Image
Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live.… — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“another motive as well—namely, to preserve her voice, which had a quality of expressiveness I have rarely encountered. Customarily she spoke with… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“To kill required little more than the ability to point and shoot. Almost anyone could do it. To escape required the successful… — Tom Wood Copy Share Image
To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She lowers the volume of this Safe and Top-Trending song titled... "Love Ain’t No Thang But a Chicken Wang.” ” — Adam Scott Huerta Copy Share Image
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
