Motive Quotes · Page 9

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.

— H. D. Kumaraswamy

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

— Samuel Johnson

Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.

— George Herbert

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“It's all about motive. Climbing up and climbing out look the same on the outside.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“para expresses purpose or destination and por cause or motive.”

— John Butt

Winning is the motive. It's the ultimatum. We wanna win ball games.

— Jalen Hurts

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

— David Foster Wallace

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting…

— Edith Stein

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive.…

— Sivananda

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

— Janos Kadar

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

— Ram Dass

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

— George Eliot

“The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The professor’s motive was in the grand scheme of things terribly petty ” Greenwood said. “"Pilate’s Cross" is inspired by the questions…

— J. Alexander Greenwood

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to…

— Criss Jami

I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for…

— Sophie Hannah

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that…

— Jon Meacham

To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which…

— Thomas Jefferson

I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross…

— Dorothy Day

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is…

— Toni Morrison

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West…

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their…

— John C. Maxwell

We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That…

— Os Guinness

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

In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general…

— Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Unfortunately there are too many examples of members of Congress and other elected officials using language, referring to your opponents in ways…

— Jeff Flake

So much of the time I'm cast as an asshole or a douchebag, or that kind of thing. I'd like to go…

— Dan Amboyer

In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus…

— Donald Miller

Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which…

— Clarence Darrow

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

— Oliver Ellsworth

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

— Nikola Tesla

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

— H. L. Mencken

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

— William Graham Sumner

A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

— Augustus William Hare

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

— Rex Stout

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius