The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I keep people around me that have the freedom to challenge my heart and motive. — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve. — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Your house is made by its own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“The right reason and motive for success, while pursued in the right way, will trigger divine support, human celebration and personal fulfillment… — Dr. Lucas D. Shallua Copy Share Image
The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler,… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever God gives you, happiness or sadness, there is a motive behind it. — Rekha Copy Share Image
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives. — Grant Cardone Copy Share Image
I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part. — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
