A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry. — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can… — African Spir 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
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast… — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives? — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
