There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil Copy Share Image
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my… — Jose Canseco Copy Share Image
Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity… — Theodore Millon Copy Share Image
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
When you look at a character and you're like, "Wow, that's really unexplored terrain for me and there's a lot happening here… — Hoon Lee Copy Share Image
To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may,… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The performance of an action is worthless in itself, if it is not done out of charity. Charity must be our motive;… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
