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The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat (Motive Quotes)
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient (Motive Quotes)
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination (Motive Quotes)
For the life of me, I don’t understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities (Motive Quotes)
What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them (Motive Quotes)
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act (Motive Quotes)
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive (Motive Quotes)
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind (Motive Quotes)
Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means (Motive Quotes)
Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward (Motive Quotes)
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles (Motive Quotes)
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it (Motive Quotes)
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever (Motive Quotes)
The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character (Motive Quotes)
Whatever be the motive of insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect (Motive Quotes)
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the can’t that prevails on the subject of labor (Motive Quotes)
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich (Motive Quotes)
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages (Motive Quotes)
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same (Motive Quotes)
The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person’s selfishness, but raise them up above it (Motive Quotes)
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life (Motive Quotes)
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food (Motive Quotes)
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces (Motive Quotes)
If interstellar travel is as time - or energy - demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be (Motive Quotes)
I, alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life (Motive Quotes)
The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive (Motive Quotes)
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure (Motive Quotes)
The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things (Motive Quotes)
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity (Motive Quotes)
A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive (Motive Quotes)