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#motive

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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.


William Howard Taft


#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.


Sachin Tendulkar


#couched #death #die #door #efforts

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.


Claude Adrien Helvetius


#action #annihilate #annihilating #desires #every

Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.


Shannon L. Alder


#anxiety #bluntness #fear #games #honesty

Nothing shocks me anymore...except pure intentions.


Donna Lynn Hope


#motives #motivational

The great trains are going out all over Europe, one by one, but still, three times a week, the Orient Express thunders superbly over the 1,400 miles of glittering steel track between Istanbul and Paris. Under the arc-lights, the long-chassied German locomotive panted quietly with the labored breath of a dragon dying of asthma. Each heavy breath seemed certain to be the last. Then came another.


Ian Fleming


#dragon #locomotive #orient-express #train #love

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.


Criss Jami


#criticism #envy #good-intentions #inspirational #intentions

Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.


Karl Rove


#al #been #broadcasts #certainly #danger

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.


Mortimer Adler


#also #assured #end #follow #free

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.


Stanley Baldwin


#complain #explain #exposed #false #find






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