Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into bad habits, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moment one starts sharing one's being without any motive life becomes a sweet fragrance. It is all honey. Then everything remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').… — Timothy Keller 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
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
“Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. — Stand Watie Copy Share Image
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them. — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
My main motive for going into children's literature was to recreate the helpless giggling that infected me in my childhood. In some… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money. — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are. — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
