“Motive lies behind action. It is the root of behaviour and attitude, the fuel we need to progress from desire to achievement.… — Sarah Tun Copy Share Image
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini 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
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Every relationship has one or the other motive behind it. Friendship or enemity are not purposeless.Oneness of motive is turned into friendship.… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives… — Anne Cassidy Copy Share Image
If Americans are frustrated with Congress, imagine their frustration with a group of international bank officials running our ecomomy-bankers who may not… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“He was driven with the thought that one day he would achieve his objective; his mind was the only motive force he… — Pandora Copy Share Image
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying… — Barbara Pym 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
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Why not? I wanted to say. Because you didn’t know her, she was nothing to you. Because you were already hurt. Because… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
![“The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.” quote by Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13c/simone-weil-544_bears_the-same-suffering-is-much-harder-to-bea_1340865.jpg)
