“ Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 484
“ We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”
- Jane Smiley- Copy
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“ A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ”
- J. P. Morgan- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life? ”
- Jane Elliott- Copy
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“ Work done with selfish motives is inferior by far to the selfless service or Karma-yoga. Therefore be a Karma-yogi, O Arjuna. Those who seek. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
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“ We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ”
- Lily Tomlin- Copy
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“ Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. ”
- Archibald Alexander- Copy
- 248
“ Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him. ”
- Oswald Chambers- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 318
“ Too great a preoccupation with motives is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. ”
- Katharine Whitehorn- Copy
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“ He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 850
“ Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ”
- Sir James M. Barrie- Copy
- 548
“ We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us. ”
- Marie de Sevigne- Copy
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“ From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one — to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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