Motive Quotes

782 Motive quotes by 561 unique authors

I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic… — Fanny Kemble
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people. — Henry Ford
Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of… — Ha-Joon Chang
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed… — Henry Adams
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. — Edmund Burke
As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come… — Alan Cranston
Believe me, I grow daily more convinced that the atmosphere is an inexhaustible source of countless beauties. It is up to we artists to learn,… — Unknown Author
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason. — James E. Faust
Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the… — Twyla Tharp
For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line… — David A. Bednar
We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it. — Tim Cook
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people… — P.D. James
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive… — Nathan Deal
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved? — C.S. Lewis
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives… — Stephen Covey
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… — Ayn Rand
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. — Nikola Tesla
The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of… — Stephen Covey
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will… — Edward Bernays
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. — George Muller
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists… — P.J. O'Rourke
The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society no one should… — Sheldon Richman

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