Pastoral Resources

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.

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.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

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.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

The motive power of democracy is love.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.