Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Often it's scarier when stuff is weird and when you don't fully understand the motive. Pennywise in 'IT' is very weird. — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
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
The only motive that there ever was was to completely control a person; a person I found physically attractive. And keep them… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there are too many examples of members of Congress and other elected officials using language, referring to your opponents in ways… — Jeff Flake 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
I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through… — Zoe Lofgren Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty , but it also implies that your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
I ago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive… — Robert Sirico Copy Share Image
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