People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously,… — Mark Riebling Copy Share Image
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put… — John William Mackail Copy Share Image
Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to… — Chuck Smith Copy Share Image
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
Fasting with a pure heart and motives, I have discovered, brings personal revival and adds power to our prayers. Personal revival occurs… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask?… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees,… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
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