“It was the desire of appearing superior to other people. The motive was too common to be wondered at.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“So maybe this was another example of nothing ever being just one thing. No motive is pure. No one is good or… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the… — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
“if we are on the look-out for evil in others, our real motive is obviously to justify ourselves, for we are seeking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and… — Glenn Archer Copy Share Image
The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family,… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school. — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions… This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves… — Irene Hunt Copy Share Image
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image