Quotes of: Motive Keyword

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

George Eliot

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

Louise Bourgeois

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

Peter Guber

Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

Russell Brand

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Tom Scholz

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

Tom Stoppard

Life is a learning process. Learn from your mistakes. The lessons should motivates you to make better decisions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to understand who your customer is and her motivations and marry it to what's happening in the outside world.

Mindy Grossman

My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil.

Munia Khan

A philosopher philosophizes what people need to hear. A motivational speaker speaks what people want to hear.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

Ella Maillart

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

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

Dave Matthews

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.

Dominic Monaghan

What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.

Hayley Williams

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

Emanuel Cleaver

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.

Paul Buchheit

I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.

Tamara Ecclestone