The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions… — Sarah Fielding 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
I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of… — Donald Faison Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who… — Boaz Ganor 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
Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in… — Maria Montessori 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
The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and… — Glenn Archer Copy Share Image
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are. — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money. — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
