Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
“The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive,… — Giancarlo Esposito 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 motive… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Why would the apostles lie?…Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry. — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“It's all about motive. Climbing up and climbing out look the same on the outside.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
![“[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c15/james-madison-373_church_the-proposed-establishment-will-have-a-t_1968416.png)
