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Motive Quotes

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace Picture Quote #1

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world Picture Quote #1

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I’m an actor, that’s all. I just do what I do Picture Quote #1

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out Picture Quote #1

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence Picture Quote #1

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority Picture Quote #1

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I don’t necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I’d much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I’d prefer to play the villain because there’s a reason, there’s a motive behind their madness Picture Quote #1

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive Picture Quote #1

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive Picture Quote #1

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive Picture Quote #1

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime Picture Quote #1

Tis e’er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o’erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer Picture Quote #1

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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man’s moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening Picture Quote #1

Prayer’s important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it’s a way to refresh one’s own mind and motive. If you’re praying, you’re really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you Picture Quote #1

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot Picture Quote #1

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive Picture Quote #1

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves Picture Quote #1

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change Picture Quote #1

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The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it’s fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft Picture Quote #1

To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are but mechanisms, which will perish with the span of man’s life. It is the essence beyond, that which is the motive power, and makes man live, that is now compelled to rouse itself and act Picture Quote #1

You’d better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you’ll go crazy. My sense is that you’ll be writers only if you are convinced that to write is something for which there is no substitute in your life. You must therefore be ambitious for your work rather than for its promotion. The good news here is that if you assign secondary importance to publishing and primary to writing itself, you will write better, and will thus increase your odds of getting publishing Picture Quote #1

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring Picture Quote #1

It’s so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it Picture Quote #1

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion Picture Quote #1

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The problem isn’t that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It’s that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic Picture Quote #1

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it Picture Quote #1

The main question... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law Picture Quote #1

Everything pertaining to what’s happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I’m in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world Picture Quote #1

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt Picture Quote #1

I know it’s not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it’s just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it’s more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn’t beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel Picture Quote #1

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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace (Motive Quotes) Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world (Motive Quotes) I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I’m an actor, that’s all. I just do what I do (Motive Quotes) From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out (Motive Quotes) My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence (Motive Quotes) There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority (Motive Quotes) I don’t necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I’d much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I’d prefer to play the villain because there’s a reason, there’s a motive behind their madness (Motive Quotes) Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive (Motive Quotes) Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive (Motive Quotes) My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive (Motive Quotes) Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime (Motive Quotes) Tis e’er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o’erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer (Motive Quotes) Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man’s moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening (Motive Quotes) Prayer’s important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it’s a way to refresh one’s own mind and motive. If you’re praying, you’re really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you (Motive Quotes) Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot (Motive Quotes) Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive (Motive Quotes) Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves (Motive Quotes) There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change (Motive Quotes) The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it’s fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting the craft, profits enhance it. Expansion drives diversity and diversity protects and strengthens our craft (Motive Quotes) To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are but mechanisms, which will perish with the span of man’s life. It is the essence beyond, that which is the motive power, and makes man live, that is now compelled to rouse itself and act (Motive Quotes) You’d better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you’ll go crazy. My sense is that you’ll be writers only if you are convinced that to write is something for which there is no substitute in your life. You must therefore be ambitious for your work rather than for its promotion. The good news here is that if you assign secondary importance to publishing and primary to writing itself, you will write better, and will thus increase your odds of getting publishing (Motive Quotes) Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring (Motive Quotes) It’s so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it (Motive Quotes) The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion (Motive Quotes) The problem isn’t that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It’s that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic (Motive Quotes) We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it (Motive Quotes) The main question... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law (Motive Quotes) Everything pertaining to what’s happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I’m in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world (Motive Quotes) Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt (Motive Quotes) I know it’s not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it’s just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it’s more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn’t beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel (Motive Quotes)

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