With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience.… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. — George Muller 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
“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts. — John Piper Copy Share Image
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves… — Irene Hunt Copy Share Image
