Motive Quotes

782 Motive quotes by 561 unique authors

For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years.… — Jean Giono
We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative… — Eknath Easwaran
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. — Wendell Berry
If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what… — Todd McFarlane
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson
When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a… — Bram Fischer
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment. — Mahavatar Babaji
If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course knows this and… — Sheri L. Dew
This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have… — Unknown Author
The truth of the matter is, Satan and God may want the exact same event to take place - but for different reasons. Satan's motive… — Joni Eareckson Tada
Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting… — Joni Eareckson Tada
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me… — Betsy Lerner
Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's no doubt that… — Robert S. Mendelsohn
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger… — Leonard Cohen
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever. — Timothy Keller
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world… — John R. Rice
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to… — M. Scott Peck
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved. — Ram Dass
And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together.… — Chris Matthews
The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory. — Smith Wigglesworth
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy. — Chris Prentiss
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them… — Ernest Becker
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the… — Claude Bernard
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end. — Samuel Johnson

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