144 Quotations with Motive.
- 1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the trut ...
- 2. Henry Miller: Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meanin ...
- 3. John M. Barrie: Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
- 4. Eric Hoffer: The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an in ...
- 5. Claude A. Helvetius: Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to ...
- 6. Archibald Alexander: Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primaril ...
- 7. Edwin Hubbel Chapin: Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is ...
- 8. W. M. L. Jay: Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always viti ...
- 9. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motive ...
- 10. Aldous Huxley: To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it ha ...
- 11. Sterne: How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 14. The Quarterly Review: What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives trave ...
- 15. Bhagavad Gita: On action alone be thy interest,
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- 16. Lois McMaster Bujold: Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of ...
- 17. Henry W. Fowler: Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before bec ...
- 18. Oscar Wilde: Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest mot ...
- 19. Sir Winston Churchill: Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and ...
- 20. Alexander Hamilton: Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has be ...
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