From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves… — Irene Hunt Copy Share Image
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard… — Ferdinand Christian Baur Copy Share Image
“I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though on vastly different levels) is dedicated to music. That… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work.… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas!… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive… — Robert Sirico Copy Share Image
I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school. — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
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