Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness… — Emile Souvestre Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
“Everyone has an ulterior motive. Everyone wants something, and everyone is willing to do whatever they have to in order to get… — Kyra Dune Copy Share Image
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion. — La Meri Copy Share Image
A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“motive, When you learn these things I've told you, ~When you know them, when you do them, ~Then I will depart and… — Henry Lindlahr Copy Share Image
To most people in the UK, indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means… — James Petigru Boyce Copy Share Image
I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Such apparently illogical actions are almost never inspired by a single motive. They spring from an unknown number of threads, perhaps thousands… — Miklós Bánffy Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“The practical joker despises his victims, but at the same time he envies them because their desires, however childish and mistaken, are… — W.H. Auden 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
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison Copy Share Image
As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. — George Muller Copy Share Image
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money. — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are. — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
