I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Buzzards don’t make good friends. They always have an interior motive.” — John R. Erickson 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
With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one’s self… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion. — La Meri Copy Share Image
It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a… — A. B. Simpson 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
To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“We must not only do what is right. We must act for the right reasons. The modern term is good motive. The… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The practical joker despises his victims, but at the same time he envies them because their desires, however childish and mistaken, are… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“jealousy is a pretty good motive for murder – and a pretty common one, too.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs. — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“I can hear you preach about freedom, yet your motive that makes me listened.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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