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The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth’s inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive (Motive Quotes)
The dog barking at you from behind his master’s fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built (Motive Quotes)
The only motive that there ever was was to completely control a person; a person I found physically attractive. And keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them (Motive Quotes)
The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this (Motive Quotes)
For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake (Motive Quotes)
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies (Motive Quotes)
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment (Motive Quotes)
This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it (Motive Quotes)
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you’ll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy (Motive Quotes)
In every enterprise... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear (Motive Quotes)
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel (Motive Quotes)
If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best (Motive Quotes)
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality (Motive Quotes)
The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That’s why they hate politicians so much, because politicians have direct power and they do not (Motive Quotes)
The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force (Motive Quotes)
A man’s motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man (Motive Quotes)
A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive (Motive Quotes)
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive (Motive Quotes)
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 (Motive Quotes)
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot (Motive Quotes)
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer (Motive Quotes)
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live (Motive Quotes)
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist? (Motive Quotes)
To follow implies not only the denying of one’s own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following, your motive is a reward (Motive Quotes)
I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved (Motive Quotes)
In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue (Motive Quotes)
The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves (Motive Quotes)
Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means (Motive Quotes)
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money (Motive Quotes)
There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it’s not very expensive... it’s very democratic, and everyone has acesss to it. It is: Find someone who needs help and help him for no ulterior motive (Motive Quotes)