Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive. — David Luiz Copy Share Image
What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive.… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave. — Janos Kadar Copy Share Image
Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to… — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
For the majority of instances where money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others, the real underlying motive is a… — James Allen Copy Share Image
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg 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
One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than… — Michael Faraday 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
When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long. — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue.”)” — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
