Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation. — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“To encapsulate the prosecution’s theory concerning motive, a central element in the case, he offered a quote from William Congreve that he… — Paul Alexander Copy Share Image
Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with… — Glen David Gold Copy Share Image
Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
This going on and on about how terrible a carbon-based economy is, these people are full of crap. They don't know what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I am a convinced and consistent critic of party-parliamentarism. I am for non-partisan elections of true people's representatives who are accountable to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through… — Zoe Lofgren Copy Share Image
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. — Charles Mengel Allen Copy Share Image
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
“The only motive in the world that will keep me from sin is the knowledge that God is mine and I am… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid… — Tricia Goyer Copy Share Image
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
