To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may,… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives.… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance… — Jean Giono 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
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if… — Jane Austen 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
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
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask?… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all… — Sri Aurobindo 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
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive. — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
