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The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. — Swami Vivekananda
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is… — Sivananda
Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and… — John Bunyan
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and… — Richard J. Foster
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. — Archibald Alexander
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny,… — Paul Klee
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. — Leonardo da Vinci
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. — George Bernard Shaw
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime... — Lord Acton
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and… — Samuel Johnson
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions. — Eleanor Roosevelt
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free… — Marilyn Ferguson
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality… — Ayn Rand
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies. — Milton Friedman
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person. — Wallace D. Wattles
The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions… — Byron Katie
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul… — John Owen
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have… — Bertrand Russell

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