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Motive Quotes

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No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.
Carrie Fisher

Authors on Motive Quotes: Samuel Johnson George Eliot Bertrand Russell Thomas Jefferson Charles Caleb Colton Virgil H. L. Mencken Rush Limbaugh Mignon McLaughlin Victor Hugo Henry Ford Albert Einstein Heather Mills Ben Brantley Ernest Hemingway Robert M. Pirsig Jane Austen William Ellery Channing Franz Kafka Chris Hughes Kate Smith Lord Acton Paul David Tripp Thomas Bernhard Janet Malcolm Andre Gide Leo Tolstoy Cassandra Clare Karl Marx Steig Larsson Miguel de Unamuno C. S. Lewis Norman Douglas
2.
Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.
Nicolas Bouvier

3.
The motive power of democracy is love
Henri Bergson

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

5.
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
Virgil

6.
Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.
Billy Graham

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Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
David Eddings

9.
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
Leon Trotsky

10.
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
Sri Aurobindo

11.
I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.
Nikola Tesla

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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.
Mark Twain

13.
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
Jane Austen

14.
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

15.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
Pliny the Younger

16.
See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?
Confucius

17.
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
Quentin Crisp

18.
My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere then at least it wasn't because I tried to be something I'm not.
Ben Howard

19.
The motive of success is not enough.
Alfred North Whitehead

20.
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray

21.
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

22.
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

23.
A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
Alec Guinness

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One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.
Lewis Carroll

25.
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.
Neil Gaiman

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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
Albert Ellis

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

28.
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
Emile M. Cioran

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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

30.
Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.
Steig Larsson

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

32.
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
Mignon McLaughlin

33.
The noblest motive is the public good.
Virgil

34.
When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
Alexis Carrel

35.
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.
Karl Marx

36.
Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
Thomas a Kempis

37.
He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvetius

38.
A wrong motive involves defeat.
Mary Baker Eddy

39.
Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part.
Stephen C. Meyer

40.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
Miguel de Unamuno

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The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
Abraham Kuyper

42.
In a promise,
what you thought,
and not what you said,
is always to be considered.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

43.
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
John Stuart Mill

44.
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.
Charles Caleb Colton

45.
The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.
Janet Malcolm

46.
Pure motives do not insure perfect results.
Christian Nestell Bovee

47.
Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

49.
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
T. S. Eliot

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We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
Karl Barth