What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Assumptions can be a hurtful thing. No one knows the motive in someones heart. — The Joker Copy Share Image
By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive. — David Luiz Copy Share Image
One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be. — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.” — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love. — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for… — George Mason Copy Share Image
There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it's not very expensive ...… — Yossi Vardi Copy Share Image
One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go… — Wilfrid Noyce Copy Share Image
Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
