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
... 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It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive. — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty… — William Shenstone 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
But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm a person who really likes to understand motives - the inner motives and the inner personalities of persons. Why do people… — Dror Moreh Copy Share Image
Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“Why would anyone look further?” “There’s truth to that. You’re right. But Julianne may be telling her daughter she is innocent as… — Sally Goldenbaum Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part. — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
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
Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
