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“No man does anything from a single motive”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes (English lyrical Poet, Critic and Philosopher. 1772-1834)

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“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
Lee Iacocca quotes
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“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.”
Robert Heinlein quotes (American science-fiction writer,1907-1988)
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“The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls”
Angela Merici quotes

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“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)
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“There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)

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“What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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