We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force… — M. Scott Peck 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
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That… — Os Guinness 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
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood 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
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
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
For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
The Softness of a person's Nature Doesn't mean Weakness, because Nothing is Softer than Water but its Force can Break the Strongest… — Syed Mustafa Faraz Ahmad Copy Share Image
We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“Multi oameni, cand incearca sa justifice de ce au sau nu au o anumita credinta, deseori au multe opinii in loc de… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy. — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
