Best Motive Qoutes
782 Motive quotes by 561 unique authors
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The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of…
— Teresa of Avila
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I sometimes think I should like to give up business entirely. The care and worriment attending large business interests are very great, but besides that…
— Jay Gould
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I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives…
— Dion Fortune
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How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means of constant effort.…
— Maria Montessori
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It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.
— James McCosh
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve…
— Jared Diamond
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It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
— David Frum
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In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in…
— P D Ouspensky
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The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end…
— Edith Stein
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If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life…
— Rich Mullins
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I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have…
— Elisabeth Eaves
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills…
— Chauncey Wright
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I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
— Laurence Housman
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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to…
— Robert McCracken
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate…
— Patrick MacGill
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
— Tom Scholz
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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
— Ray Bradbury
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If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have…
— Nancy Gibbs
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To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always…
— Eva Zeisel
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The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends…
— Kurt Hahn
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I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
— Kate Smith
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We rarely do anything with on single motive.
— Paul David Tripp
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