The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love. — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's… — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
When you look at a character and you're like, "Wow, that's really unexplored terrain for me and there's a lot happening here… — Hoon Lee Copy Share Image
To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may,… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a convinced and consistent critic of party-parliamentarism. I am for non-partisan elections of true people's representatives who are accountable to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
This going on and on about how terrible a carbon-based economy is, these people are full of crap. They don't know what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. — Bertrand Russell 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
The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case,… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things. — Phil Karn Copy Share Image
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time. — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct. — John Lancaster Spalding 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
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment. — Mahavatar Babaji Copy Share Image
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