“Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor,… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness… — Emile Souvestre Copy Share Image
Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which… — Josiah Bartlett Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
“To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed. — Margaret Preston Copy Share Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature — John Locke Copy Share Image
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts. — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Copy Share Image
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive. — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
