Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put… — John William Mackail Copy Share Image
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives… — Bruce Greenwood Copy Share Image
I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors… — George Mason Copy Share Image
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive. — David Luiz Copy Share Image
The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if… — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I… — Victor Garber 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
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many… — James Madison Copy Share Image