The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't… — David Maister Copy Share Image
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“We must not only do what is right. We must act for the right reasons. The modern term is good motive. The… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed… — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
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