Motive Quotes
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Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
William Shenstone
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Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
Oswald Chambers
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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
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The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.
Vivienne Westwood
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But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
C.J. Sansom
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To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
Carolyn Wells
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Life always take on the character of its motive.
J. G. Holland
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We have no ulterior motive here, ... There's no reason for us hide this information. We want to get it out.
John Whiting
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Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.
William H. Seward
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When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.
Kingsley Amis
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Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.
John Fogerty
Creedence Clearwater Revival
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I'm sorry you leftists, you're not the only people whose motives are pure.
Andrew Breitbart
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The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract of calm weather the mines were drowned, and all the workmen thrown idle.
William Stanley Jevons
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Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.
James Cook
