The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives? — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days. You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
