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Motive Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind…
- Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
- It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and…
- There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
- The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness…
- It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
- Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives.…
More Motive Quotes
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
- If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people… — J. G. Ballard
- We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men… — Robert Byrd
- The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and… — Unknown Author
- The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt
- Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping… — Bernard de Mandeville
- The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to… — Thomas McKean