Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.” — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality, — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Go out and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons and preach the kingdom. But do it for only one… — Praying Medic Copy Share Image
“I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing?" " Motive - Don't know. " "What… — Pamela Branch Copy Share Image
Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
You know, you can't always criticize without somebody being at the end of the stick. And she perhaps did not always grant… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I think it's just yet another piece to cause confusion and I think that the 'so-called scientific debate' is very silly now… — Joe Bastardi Copy Share Image
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long. — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
