Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self… — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the… — Katharine Drexel Copy Share Image
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days. You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Who benefits from Wi-Fi? We all benefit from Wi-Fi. Is there an industry here? Of course, there is an industry, as well.… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving… — James Cook Copy Share Image
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Motive lies behind action. It is the root of behaviour and attitude, the fuel we need to progress from desire to achievement.… — Sarah Tun Copy Share Image
I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
“He was driven with the thought that one day he would achieve his objective; his mind was the only motive force he… — Pandora Copy Share Image
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
![“The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.” quote by Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/13c/simone-weil-544_bears_the-same-suffering-is-much-harder-to-bea_1340865.jpg)
![“I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real life of an NBA player. And it's not all about I just do everything, like I'm the hardest worker, or I love to play basketball every day, I go to the gym at eight and don't leave…” quote by Kevin Durant](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9de/kevin-durant-2143_basketball_i-don-t-know-what-everybody-else-s-motiv_2819605.png)
