Animated Quote by Samuel Johnson

All human activity is prompted by desire.

— Anonymous

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

— Leonardo da Vinci

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

— Anne Carson

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new…

— Ravi Zacharias

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

— Philip Sidney

“Humanity is collectively compelled to take the path of spirit to its inevitable conclusion.”

— Simon Boylan

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord,…

— Louis MacNeice

Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given,…

— Yasmin Mogahed

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

— Albert Einstein

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

— Sidney Jourard