“It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time. — Kingsley Amis 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
How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar.… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though… — Ernest Wood Copy Share Image
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
![“[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c15/james-madison-373_church_the-proposed-establishment-will-have-a-t_1968416.jpg)
