A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self… — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy,… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the… — Katharine Drexel Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society:… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It is possible to work across the aisle in Washington, but it's hard. And I think it's been made worse by the… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Modern authoritarianism, as it's growing inside Europe and now coming to the United States, rests much more on the use of power… — David Frum 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
“Motive lies behind action. It is the root of behaviour and attitude, the fuel we need to progress from desire to achievement.… — Sarah Tun Copy Share Image
I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving… — James Cook Copy Share Image
What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I didn't expect to feel pathos for the villains in our show. I feel quite moved in several of our episodes; I… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
![“I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real life of an NBA player. And it's not all about I just do everything, like I'm the hardest worker, or I love to play basketball every day, I go to the gym at eight and don't leave…” quote by Kevin Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9de/kevin-durant-2143_basketball_i-don-t-know-what-everybody-else-s-motiv_2819605.png)
![“The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.” quote by Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/simone-weil-544_bears_the-same-suffering-is-much-harder-to-bea_1340865.jpg)
