One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I can hear you preach about freedom, yet your motive that makes me listened.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.” — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion. — La Meri Copy Share Image
I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If you want to make a difference with art, which is a motive I perceive as questionable, then the single most stupid… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room… — Rhonda Britten Copy Share Image
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As long as there is a slightest self gain motive, no one will be able to speak the truth.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“jealousy is a pretty good motive for murder – and a pretty common one, too.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Buzzards don’t make good friends. They always have an interior motive.” — John R. Erickson Copy Share Image
