Top Motive Quotes
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
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
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
Stand Watie
I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.
Sally Field
Laurence Housman 
George Eliot 
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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu 
61% of people like this quote
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
60% of people like this quote
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
58% of people like this quote
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
Stand Watie
57% of people like this quote
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Paul Gallico
57% of people like this quote
I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.
Sally Field
57% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
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.
Dirk Benedict
57% of people like this quote
Popular Motive Authors
George EliotEric HofferWilliam JamesLord ByronErnest HemingwayJoseph AddisonMiguel De CervantesJean de la BruyereWilliam Butler YeatsSamuel Taylor ColeridgeDenis DiderotAyn RandCharles KuraltDirk BenedictHerbert Hoover
Mortimer AdlerTodd GitlinWalter ScottHenri BergsonLajos KossuthJurgen HabermasWilliam Howard TaftHavelock EllisAlex CampbellSally FieldLaurence HousmanSwami SivanandaNathan DealKate ChopinHermann von Helmholtz
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