Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine any single special interest trying to buy an office without a motive. — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means… — James Petigru Boyce Copy Share Image
Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't… — David Maister Copy Share Image
The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read)… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Maybe sometimes the motive behind people’s terrorizing acts isn’t just because of their beliefs or past or some complex and twisted logic.… — David Torres Copy Share Image
“Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
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