Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means… — James Petigru Boyce Copy Share Image
I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for… — George Mason Copy Share Image
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
So much of the time I'm cast as an asshole or a douchebag, or that kind of thing. I'd like to go… — Dan Amboyer Copy Share Image
Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature — John Locke Copy Share Image
“The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. — Stand Watie Copy Share Image
One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be. — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
