Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive. — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality, — James MacGregor Burns 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
“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
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Obviously, Jews gain certain advantages by promoting the Holocaust idea. It inspires tremendous financial aid for Israel. It makes organized Jewry almost… — David Duke Copy Share Image
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Businesses are uniquely capable of creating social value and solving social problems - they have this wonderful fuel called the profit motive.” — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Copy Share Image
“We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money…” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I cannot tell you what the light is, but I can tell you what it is not.… What is the motive of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. — Heather Mills Copy Share Image
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive. — Carmen Yulin Cruz Copy Share Image
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
