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#motive

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Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.


Keanu Reeves


#destroyed #direction #effect #emotive #energy

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.


Swami Sivananda


#desire #even #evil #force #great

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.


Steven Spielberg


#crime #despicable #did #does #excuse

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.


John Sununu


#assume #bad #else #faith #first

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.


Saint Teresa


#always #construe #criticizing #defects #disturb

Profit per se is not my motive.


Chris Hughes


#per #profit

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.


Claud-Adrian Helvetius


#action #every #every man #him #man

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.


John Raleigh Mott


#dispositions #get #inside #less #motives

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.


Cleveland Abbe


#also #atmosphere #both #close #dreams

Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.


Herbert Baxter Adams


#among #call #class #corps #everywhere






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