One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts. — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Copy Share Image
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive. — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character? — Confucius Copy Share Image
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I… — Tina Yothers Copy Share Image
Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it)… — Lewis Carroll 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
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
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
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
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
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
Obviously, Jews gain certain advantages by promoting the Holocaust idea. It inspires tremendous financial aid for Israel. It makes organized Jewry almost… — David Duke Copy Share Image
It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest… — Richard J. Foster 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
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
