Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A relationship with Christ changes your heart. It's not about your head. It changes your heart. Jesus comes to live in your… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
We're now interested in finding those who may attack America and arrest them before they do. We've had over nearly a thousand… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“So maybe this was another example of nothing ever being just one thing. No motive is pure. No one is good or… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar.… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though… — Ernest Wood Copy Share Image
He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion. — Varun Dhawan 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
I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be,… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
