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Motive Quotes
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. (Quote by - Mao Zedong)
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. (Quote by - Claude Helvetius)
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
No man does anything from a single motive. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Do your duty, to the best of your abilities, for the Lord without any selfish motive, and remember God at all times - before starting a work, at the completion of a task, and while inactive. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
A man always has two reasons for doing anything - a good reason and the real reason. (Quote by - John Pierpoint Morgan)
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. (Quote by - George Eliot)
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. (Quote by - J M Barrie)
I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
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. (Quote by - Kate Chopin)
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)