144 Quotations with Motive.
- 101. Samuel Johnson: What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly ...

- 102. George Eliot: What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

- 103. Robert Heinlein: When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjec ...

- 104. Miguel de Cervantes: When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the mot ...

- 105. Dr. Alexis Carrel: When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

- 106. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

- 107. William Bolitho: Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a ch ...

- 108. Glenn Archer: The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized in ...

- 109. T.S. Eliot: We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so ...

- 110. Herbert Baxter Adams: Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is ...

- 111. Robert Byrd: We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation ...

- 112. Confucius: Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasur ...

- 113. George Norman Douglas: No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

- 114. Dianne Feinstein: For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting th ...

- 115. Mohandas Gandhi: The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becom ...

- 116. Ernest Hemingway: For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cau ...

- 117. Theodor Haecker: One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of ...

- 118. Ken Iverson: T]he initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and tea ...
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- 119. Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont: Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exceptio ...

- 120. Abraham Maslow: But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing moti ...

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