#motive

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#psychology #money

I survive at the edge of friends circles. ↗

— Holly Black

#dark #deceit #friends #lie #motives

If you make a choice in this conference and you stick to it to be an excellent person in everything you do and you stick to it especially to be excellent when nobody is looking and do it not to get a result but to glorify God you’re going to have peace and joy and you’re going to have results. My concern is that if we just do something to get results then we’re not likely to follow things all the way through to the finish, because we get very discouraged, and I think that’s one of the reasons we have such discouragement among people. “Well, I’m doing this, and I expected to get a breakthrough before now.” ….. Well, I think God has to purify our hearts and get us to the point where we are not just doing something right just to get something! ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#motivational

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below. ↗

— Lewis J. Bates

#cold #cruel #deed #judged #judgment

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#balloon #boat #gas #go #god

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. ↗

— Larry David

#because #bush #end #finally #guard

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. ↗

— Robert Higgs

#century #earlier #end #going #intentions

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#baseball #clear #eyes #i #league

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#ask #believe #best #doing #every

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. ↗

— George Combe

#become #brain #brief #fatigued #i