“Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.” MadeDifferentHumanityLiteratureIndividualMotiveInfinity Author:Ella Maillart
“White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.” PeopleIfsMadeFactsWhiteEmotionThreatReleaseMotiveFrustrationResentmentOppressedDemonstrationLatentBoiling Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I wasn't acting from the motives people usually work from: to feel good, to have fun, to make something last.” PeopleFeelsMadeBookLastsFunActingColdAngryExperimentsFeel GoodHaving FunMotivePeculiarClinicals Author:Joan Juliet Buck
“A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.” HeartLittlesMadeSoulCharacterBodyActionGraceMovementPureMotiveManifestMechanismAccordRight Action Book:The Christian Science Journal Source: The Christian Science Journal
“Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.” PeopleIfsShouldMadePromiseMotiveStrongestStakes Book:Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln Source: Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln
“Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.” IfsMenMadeWholeHandsUsedHumanityLeftFunDifficultGoalWealthWifeSacrificeMaterialsMastersAnd LoveSaintMy WifeSelfishGentleMotiveStreamsConceptionWorldlyTangibleBeggarInadequateRenounceReferringRenunciationLamentPokeMonasteriesMergingSelfish Motives Book:Autobiography of a Yogi Source: Autobiography of a Yogi
“The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.” MadeForceLinesMotiveImpressed Author:Isaac Newton