We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Multi oameni, cand incearca sa justifice de ce au sau nu au o anumita credinta, deseori au multe opinii in loc de… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port. — David Foster Wallace 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
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in… — Anonymous 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
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than… — Albert Einstein 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
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, Satan and God may want the exact same event to take place - but for different… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
