The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.” — Bryant McGill 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
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
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to teach anybody anything, I'm not trying to say anything, I have no political motive whatsoever. My motive is… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation. — John Eldredge 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
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Humanism inspires a lot of enthusiasm for everyday life and urges people to be better to one another, to work towards a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If you want to make a difference with art, which is a motive I perceive as questionable, then the single most stupid… — Hito Steyerl 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
“Most of us will. We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
