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Motive Quotes
On the reasons hiding behind action.
These motive quotes push back on simple explanations, arguing that no one acts from a single motive and that every action still needs some driving reason behind it.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The motive power of democracy is love.
- Chief
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
- Profit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Profit per se is not my motive.
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- Nov 07, 2020