107 Quotes About Motives
- Author Chip Heath
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An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.
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- Author Tana French
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It does that to you, being a detective. You look at blank space and see gears turning, motives and cunning; nothing looks innocent any more. Most times when you prove away the gears, the blank space looks lovely, peaceful. But that arm: innocent, it looked just as dangerous.
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- Author Rich Burlew
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Durkon: You're only saying that because you don't want the world to end.Roy: Of course I'm only saying that because I don't want the world to end. This is not an otherwise common topic of conversatio
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- Author Simone Weil
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Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself -- consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good -- that is the task of education. Education concerns itself with the motives for effective action. For no action is ever carried out in the absence of motives capable of supplying the indispensable amount of energy for its execution.
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- Author Kabelo Mabona
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Not only the right thing is the right thing, but doing the right out of the right motives is the right thing.
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- Author Ameya Agrawal
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When you are worried about thinking why you can't, you are losing the reasons why you should.
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- Author Tony Burgess
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And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I have done since.
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- Author Aristotle
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Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.
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- Author Gordon B. Hinckley
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You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.
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