“If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.” — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment -… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred,… — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation.… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for… — George Mason Copy Share Image
There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it's not very expensive ...… — Yossi Vardi Copy Share Image
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the… — Sean Lemass Copy Share Image
Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will -… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
I think that, anybody with a strong will to tell a story, then that is fantastic. I think it's fantastic. I think… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
“Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a… — Jeremy Dyson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't trust a cat. I feel like a cat's got an ulterior motive. The moment you show any… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
