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
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
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“What is the motive behind your services? If it is self-centered, self-serving, and lacking consideration for others, then earning people’s trust, rapport,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,… — James Madison 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
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to… — Albert Einstein 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
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. — George Muller 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
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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