Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't… — David Maister Copy Share Image
The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously,… — Mark Riebling Copy Share Image
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means… — James Petigru Boyce Copy Share Image
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation.… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Believe me, I grow daily more convinced that the atmosphere is an inexhaustible source of countless beauties. It is up to we… — Mario de Sa-Carneiro Copy Share Image
First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“because there may be a few coincidences in life, but none in crime. Everything has a motive.” — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“She lowers the volume of this Safe and Top-Trending song titled... "Love Ain’t No Thang But a Chicken Wang.” ” — Adam Scott Huerta Copy Share Image
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part. — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
You know, you can't always criticize without somebody being at the end of the stick. And she perhaps did not always grant… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Go out and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons and preach the kingdom. But do it for only one… — Praying Medic Copy Share Image
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
So much of the time I'm cast as an asshole or a douchebag, or that kind of thing. I'd like to go… — Dan Amboyer Copy Share Image
I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him,… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image