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
Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often… — Noam Chomsky 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
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“I can hear you preach about freedom, yet your motive that makes me listened.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
