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The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. — Heather Mills

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives. — Sri Aurobindo

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it. — Jean De La Bruyere

Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship. — Robert Anton Wilson

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. — Idries Shah

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive. — Giancarlo Esposito

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me — Marquis De Sade

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. — George Muller

Anybody who knows him, even all the girls, will tell you he's a great guy, and they'll do anything for him, right up until they want to kill him. — Jennifer Echols

The deeds and motive of man define his personality. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities. — Nathaniel Branden

And in every instance, the motive is the same: suppressing dissent and mandating compliance. — Glenn Greenwald

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves. — Dinesh D'Souza

But how could you guess what the motive was? — Arthur Conan Doyle

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built. — Robert Ardrey

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. — Mignon McLaughlin

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin. — Miguel De Cervantes

sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue.") — Jimmy Swaggart

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge. — Albert Einstein

Mistakes are a combination of your choices and has nothing to do with your capacity. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Our greatest motive for surrendering to him cannot be for what he will do in us. It must be to love him for what he did for us. In — Timothy J. Keller

Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder. — Farrah Naseem

God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature. — Alexander MacLaren

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. — Phillips Brooks

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive. — Jose Canseco

Motivation is desire or inspiration.
A motive is a reason. What's your reason? — Rob Liano

In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive. — Maximus The Confessor

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The motive force of history is truth and not lies. — Leon Trotsky

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research. — Albert Einstein

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin

No! You have hope! You have motive! Labour must be the cure, not sympathy! Labour is the only radical cure for rooted sorrow! — Syrie James

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men. — Samuel Rogers

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

You're convinced that there was nothing important here - nothing that would point to any motive. SHERIFF: Nothing here but kitchen things. — Susan Glaspell

Vanity is a motive of immense potency. — Bertrand Russell

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive. — Mahatma Gandhi

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits. — James Surowiecki

Life always take on the character of its motive. — J.G. Holland

The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work. — George Orwell

A business fails when motive becomes more important than the trust. — Thiruman Archunan

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument. — Reinhold Niebuhr

No one does anything from a single motive. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The motive power of democracy is love. — Henri Bergson

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is. — Ben Bradlee

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion. — La Meri

Love isn't about social status or age; it's about two people connecting and appreciating each other with no hidden motive. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive. — Walter Inglis Anderson

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse. — Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. — Denis Diderot

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen. — Lord Acton

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. — Arthur Conan Doyle

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device. — Nikola Tesla

The distance is nothing when one has a motive. — Jane Austen

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. — Walter Scott

To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person. — Wallace D. Wattles

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it. — Eric Metaxas

First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation. — Matt Haig

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. — Samuel Johnson

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. — Suzy Kassem

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another? — Ezra Taft Benson

However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive. — Harry G. Frankfurt

Your motive influences your motion. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Everything is habit with men, everything even in their social and political relations. Habit is the great motive-power. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. — Thomas Jefferson

The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. — George Orwell

The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices. — Mark Skousen

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. — Richard Branson

The motive of man depicts his soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

That kind always has the public good as a motive to justify every abomination. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I can hear you preach about freedom,
yet your motive that makes me listened. — Toba Beta

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Katharine Whitehorn

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important. — Stephen Covey

Why does he see so much risk? "It's a knockoff of the old Sherlock Holmes version of motive, means, and opportunity," he told me. — Anonymous

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives. — Luc De Clapiers

The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed
The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone. — W.B.Yeats

Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love. — Jerry Bridges

Pure motives do not insure perfect results. — Christian Nestell Bovee

perhaps he and this man, alone on the desert, driven there by life's mysterious and remorseless motive, were to see each other through God's eyes. His — Zane Grey

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. — Paul Valery

Postpone to the great object of Liberty every smaller motive and passion. — Thomas Jefferson

Money is important, but for most people (and certainly for the best people), money isn't the primary motive for their work. — Dave Bruno

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end. — Samuel Johnson

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger. — J.G. Ballard

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer

No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive. — William F. Buckley Jr.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end. — Daniel M. Gilbert

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved. — Ram Dass

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. — William J. Brennan Jr.

If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling. — Charles R. Swindoll