Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Everyone has an ulterior motive. Everyone wants something, and everyone is willing to do whatever they have to in order to get… — Kyra Dune Copy Share Image
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy. — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one’s self… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual.… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
To most people in the UK, indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“motive, When you learn these things I've told you, ~When you know them, when you do them, ~Then I will depart and… — Henry Lindlahr Copy Share Image
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
“In the end, Vasile knew he couldn’t take any other path. He knew he needed a purpose to his life, one that… — Mitchell Hogan Copy Share Image
Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, Satan and God may want the exact same event to take place - but for different… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation,” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
