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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

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive ... is money. — Asher Brown Durand

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

Sometimes people forget the bridge that connected them to success. — Nikita Dudani

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. — Peter Hoeg

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It's up to something. — Terry Pratchett

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

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

The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory. — Smith Wigglesworth

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute. — Zoe Lofgren

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men. — Edith Wharton

Your Honor, if giving the finger is a motive for murder, then most everyone in this courtroom would be on trial — Kenneth Eade

The motive of man is a mystery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth. — George Eliot

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive. — Richie Norton

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out. — Jurgen Habermas

God knows the motive of every man. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The motive power is the cause of all life. — Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime ... — Lord Acton

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory. — Ben Brantley

I'm not trying to teach anybody anything, I'm not trying to say anything, I have no political motive whatsoever. My motive is just the big laugh. — Jeff Dunham

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross. — Billy Graham

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

The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure. — Mercedes Lackey

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

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. — George Eliot

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use. — E. M. Forster

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

The noblest motive is the public good. — Virgil

It was the desire of appearing superior to other people. The motive was too common to be wondered at. — Jane Austen

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time. — Kingsley Amis

Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part. — Stephen C. Meyer

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel De Cervantes

The only enduring motive for prayer is that our never-changing God is worthy to be sought. This — Daniel Henderson

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

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. — Paul Gallico

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton

My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that? — Cameron Bright

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude. — Ralph Barton Perry

I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts. — F Scott Fitzgerald

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them. — Edward Snowden

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness. — Leo Tolstoy

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people. — Henry Ford

Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite. — Neville Goddard

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences. — Immanuel Kant

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit. — Andre Gide

Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve? — Herman Melville

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it. — Michael Ondaatje

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality. — Sigmund Freud

Fawcett once described fear as the 'motive power of all evil' which had 'excluded humanity from the Garden of Eden. — David Grann

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. — Franz Kafka

The more we learn, the less and less motive we find for suicide? But for murder, we begin to have a surprising collection of motives! — Agatha Christie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. — Ayn Rand

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world. — Tom Scholz

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times. — Aristotle.

Each truth about God known by the mind is a new motive for loving Him with the will. — Peter Kreeft

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself. — Ramakrishna

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

The Lord weighs the motive of every heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

head. "I don't understand." "The details are still unclear, but the probable motive is robbery. — Netta Newbound

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice? — Adam Levin

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

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ... — Wallace Stevens

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

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

The motive power of democracy is love. — Henri Bergson

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

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

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