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
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live.… — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it's not very expensive ...… — Yossi Vardi 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
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate… — Bhikkhu Analayo 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
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment. — Mahavatar Babaji Copy Share Image
One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I'm against the theory of the multinational corporations who say if you are against hunger you must be for GMO. That's wrong,… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
