The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much… — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
