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443 Motives quotes by 336 unique authors
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I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their…
— William H. Seward
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?
— John Keegan
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The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.
— Carl Schmitt
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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to…
— Robert Emmet
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People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.
— Paul Ekman
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I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find…
— Fred Hoyle
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The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.
— Maria Montessori
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Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or…
— William H. Gass
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I sometimes think I should like to give up business entirely. The care and worriment attending large business interests are very great, but besides that…
— Jay Gould
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I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives…
— Dion Fortune
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How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means of constant effort.…
— Maria Montessori
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A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
— David Frum
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If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life…
— Rich Mullins
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills…
— Chauncey Wright
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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to…
— Robert McCracken
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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
— Ray Bradbury
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If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have…
— Nancy Gibbs
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I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
— Kate Smith
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However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good…
— Oliver Heaviside
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But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
— C.J. Sansom
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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.
— Eric Hoffer
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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
— Sidney Hook
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Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all…
— David Livingstone
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