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It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.
Josh Radnor
Kindness
Judge
Be Kind
Job
Our
Kind
Worthy
Determine
Rather
Unconditionally
Without
Ulterior
Motive
Jury
Just
Prefer
Who
Even
Play
Need
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot
Opportunity
Cruelty
Every
Other
Only
Outside
Like
Motive
Itself
Vice
Requires
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
Charles Kuralt
People
Wonderful
Greed
Other
Superiority
Hostility
Delusions
Toward
Doing
Motive
Lot
Quietly
Wonderful Things
Who
Things
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand
Good
Stupidity
Say
Neither
Force
Nor
Motive
Motives
Ever
Desire
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
Kindness
Made
Become
Own
Kind
Motive
Being
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong
Alone
History
People
World
Force
Making
Motive
World History
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Will
Men
Free
Free Will
Creation
Every
Seek
Atom
Only
Could
Mystery
Through
Had
Taking
Him
His
Motive
Infinite
Sensitive
Pains
Creator
Shroud
Presence
Desire
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Other
Furnished
Worse
Pardon
Could
Never
He
Rob
Most
Go
Dollars
Motive
Hand
Sell
Than
Africa
Children
Which
Depraved
Them
Cents
Then
Much
Who
Her
Receive
Bondage
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.
Ravi Zacharias
Dangerous
Destruction
Unity
Motive
Where
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
Alone
Light
Shadow
Shadows
Lights
Looks
Always
Motive
Deed
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft
Savage
Great
Will
Long
Down
Every
State
Rule
Plunging
Object
More
Ardently
Cast
Previous
Individual
Argue
Wished
Because
Denied
Motive
Just
Repression
After
Anything
Break
Acquired
Aside
Then
Inhibition
Sufficiently
Desired
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
Great
Mind
Evil
Poverty
Action
Great Evil
Force
Greatest
Real
Motive
Very
Spark
Even
Desire
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
Vernon Howard
Spiritual
Yourself
Evil
Destroy
Above
Only
Attack
Neurosis
Arising
Badness
Development
Motive
Human
Which
Against
Your
Enlightenment
Chance
Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.
Mike Huckabee
Prayer
Thoughts
You
Mind
Important
Looking
Own
Think
Way
Pressures
Kind
Some
Beyond
Exercise
Around
Metaphysical
Praying
Motive
Personal
Refresh
Just
Really
Your
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
Kindness
Judge
Made
Become
Own
Futile
Kind
Motive
Motives
Being
Deed
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.
Henry Giroux
Life
Good
You
People
Good Life
Only
Motivates
Motive
Getting
Cannot
Imagine
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
Jane Austen
Life
My Life
Sit
Down
Other
Could
Write
Motive
Than
Any
Romance
Serious
Save
It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive, that's their passion... I think that's what makes your life meaningful, that's what fills your own heart and that's what gives you purpose.
Maria Shriver
Life
Me
You
Heart
People
World
Passion
Own
Think
Meet
Gives
Purpose
Inspiring
Feel
Make
Make A Difference
Makes
Always
Motive
Difference
Meaningful
Your
Who
Fills
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.
Mortimer Adler
Truth
Heart
Will
Made
Free
Free Will
Assured
Our
Follow
Glad
Lead
Know
Also
Well
Make
Motive
End
Hearts
May
In The End
Acknowledge
Which
Us
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
Stand Watie
Great
World
Crime
Will
Bad
Without
Motive
Get
Any
Intention
Blunder
We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.
Alan Patricof
Education
History
Will
Profit
Our
Through
Nonprofit
Motive
Done
Maybe
Helpful
Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.
Alex Berenson
Sometimes
Evidence
Fraud
Would
Lavish
More
Habitual
Lifestyles
Tens
Tens Of Millions
Cheat
Executive
Make
Answer
Making
Gluttony
Dollars
Provide
Motive
Wonder
Often
Used
Even
Helps
Why
Millions
Millions Of Dollars
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.
Alex Campbell
Life
Death
Me
Cause
Own
Alexander
Statement
Relieve
My Own
Take
Know
Also
Make
Motive
Led
Campbell
Friends
Necessity
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Anna Jameson
Religion
Fear
Evil
Beginning
Morals
Principle
Motive
Begins
Ends
Fanaticism
Either
Wickedness
This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.
Augustus Y. Napier
Man
Change
Changes
Changing
Way
Out
Kind
Parent
Determined
Only
Part
Because
Motive
Often
Being
Want
Being A Man
Wanting
Happens
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
Barry Unsworth
You
Feeling
Live
Profit
Consequences
Analogy
Distasteful
Reckoning
Kind
See
Total
Some
Strongly
More
Economic
Perfect
Through
Doctrines
Wrote
Devotion
Without
Trade
Inescapable
How
Were
Motive
Began
Model
Human
Really
Slave
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