Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, you leftists: you're not the only people whose motives are pure. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity… — Theodore Millon Copy Share Image
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion. — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive… — Peace Pilgrim 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
“The performance of an action is worthless in itself, if it is not done out of charity. Charity must be our motive;… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.” — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
I ago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve. — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
