Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
My main motive for going into children's literature was to recreate the helpless giggling that infected me in my childhood. In some… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them. — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to… — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
“To encapsulate the prosecution’s theory concerning motive, a central element in the case, he offered a quote from William Congreve that he… — Paul Alexander Copy Share Image
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives.… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“She could see now why she'd crossed over the line. She hadn't understood that it was despair that made her seek out… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto.… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that… — Ira Remsen Copy Share Image
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. — Stand Watie Copy Share Image
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“She lowers the volume of this Safe and Top-Trending song titled... "Love Ain’t No Thang But a Chicken Wang.” ” — Adam Scott Huerta Copy Share Image
