It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.Josh Radnor

Kindness, Rather, Judge

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.Sarojini Naidu

Courage, Action, Greater

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.Leonardo da Vinci

Action, Needs, Prompted

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.Mike Huckabee

Mind, Looking, Thoughts

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.Ravi Zacharias

Dangerous, Unity

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.William Howard Taft

Today, Effort, Socialism

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.Lord Byron

Trust, Good, Others

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.Mao Zedong

History, Alone, Force

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.Charles Kuralt

Wonderful, Greed, Toward

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.William Butler Yeats

Alone, Light, Looks

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.Swami Sivananda

Great, Mind, Greatest

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

Good, Stupidity, Desire

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.Ernest Hemingway

War, Public, Three

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.Walter Scott

Best, Power, Greatest

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.George Eliot

Life, Dreary

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.

Ravi Zacharias

Good, Others, Evil

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.Edward Snowden

Against, Public, Name

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.Joyce Carol Oates

Life, Happiness, Time

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.Philip Yancey

Love, Difference, Profit

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.George Oppen

Poetry, Beautiful, Achieve

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.Augustus Y. Napier

Change, Often, Happens

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.William James

Happiness, Men, Times

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.George Eliot

Itself, Outside, Cruelty

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.Lord Byron

Sincere, Entire, Sole

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?Joseph Addison

Father, Others, Cruel

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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.Eric Hoffer

Kindness

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.Jean de la Bruyere

Men, Alone, Character

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?Ezra Taft Benson

God, Another, Rather

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.Mortimer Adler

Truth, Heart, Free

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.Anna Jameson

Religion, Fear, Evil

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.Emma Thompson

Rather, Control, Creative

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.Stanley Baldwin

Politics, Complain, False

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'Ayelet Waldman

Men, Women, Father

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.J. G. Ballard

Understand, Against, Head

Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.Alex Berenson

Often, Wonder, Cheat

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.Ryan Kwanten

Reason, Behind, General

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.Anna Letitia Barbauld

Business, Knowledge, Learning

The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?Martin Rees

Life, Travel, Stars

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.Jon Meacham

Action, Though, Psychology

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Tom Scholz

Run, Letting, Turning

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.Khaled Hosseini

Love, Happiness, Romantic

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.Heather Mills

Life, Adversity, Overcoming

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.Barney Oliver

Time, Travel, Far

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.Claude Adrien Helvetius

Act, Action, Within

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.Kate Chopin

Good, Power, Times

In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.Lajos Kossuth

Government, Her, Opinion

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.Miguel de Cervantes

Law, Pity, Severity

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.Wendell Berry

Good, Care, Often

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.Claude Adrien Helvetius

Mind, Act, Action

To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.Martin Rees

War, Space, Cold

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