He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature — John Locke Copy Share Image
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil Copy Share Image
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive,… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if… — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Most of us will. We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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