Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other,… — Sigmund Freud 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
Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be… — George Henry Lewes 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
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality, — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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
Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
I think there was a bit of brotherly love, but I think everything has a motive when you're king. It's all about… — Max Irons 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
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander 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
In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive,… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
