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My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.
Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.
Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.
My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.
We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.
Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.