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- The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God…
- Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it…
- The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest…
- Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.
- Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two…
- You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only…
- 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,…
- [There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive and commercialism. Yet,…
- 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…
- If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might…
- Love without hypocrisy or ulterior motive. Love simply for the joy of serving others.
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
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- 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
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. — James M. Barrie
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above… — Ezra Taft Benson
- We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our… — Mortimer Adler
- It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. — Jean de la Bruyere
- 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
- We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. — Lord Byron