Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed. — Margaret Preston 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
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred,… — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to… — Chuck Smith Copy Share Image
Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put… — John William Mackail Copy Share Image
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 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
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
In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general… — Nikolay Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there are too many examples of members of Congress and other elected officials using language, referring to your opponents in ways… — Jeff Flake 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
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
![“[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food…” quote by Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/926/frederick-douglass-859_air_a-woman-should-have-every-honorable-moti_2109951.jpg)
