Reason Quotes

Reason is the ability of human mind to generate conclusions out of assumptions and beliefs. It is what provides the rational outlook towards a particular topic and helps a person get rid of the clouds of illusions and perceptions. It is genuine reasons only that strengthens and authenticate a motive. This article provides you with few famous handpicked reason and motive quotations and sayings. Browse through these quotes for a better understanding of the requirement of a reason behind a motive.

I really think everything happens for a reason.
Lily Collins

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Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
World Rest
Billy Beane

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The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
Appeal
Freddie Mercury

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That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thought of going away before they got up and coming back after they were in bed was intolerable.
Louise Fletcher

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Thinking Work Intelligence
Henry Ford

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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Good Advice
Agatha Christie

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The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.
People Acting
Jessica Chastain

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I'm the champion for a reason.
Ronda Rousey

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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Lonliness
Ayn Rand

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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Cost Reality Research Science
Thomas Hobbes

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I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.
Mothers
Jason Bateman

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I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'
Nicole Scherzinger

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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Right
T. S. Eliot

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Our decision was that it was beyond the scope of something that was reasonable.
Decision
John Mason Brown

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Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Science
Stephen Hawking

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I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
Ability
Samuel Alito

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There's a reason why there's a problem with bodies, and it's because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
Florence Pugh

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Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Jerry Seinfeld

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Literature
Virginia Woolf

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Nothing Heart
Blaise Pascal

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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Friendship Wedding Opinion Sharing
Omar Khayyam

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I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.
People
Gillian Anderson

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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
Best
Rachel McAdams

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The reason why I wanted to direct is because there are personal stories that I want to tell, but also because I love every part of movie making - from the wardrobe to the set decoration to cinematography.
Love
Jason Momoa

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Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.
Communication Confusion Reality Discussion
Osama bin Laden

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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Men Motivation Nothing Purpose
Malcolm X

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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx

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The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
Chris Cornell

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There must be a story within him/her that wants to come out. That's the reason why 'Dil Chahta Hai,' 'Lagaan,' and 'Rang De Basanti' worked so well: Ashutosh, Farhan, and Rakesh had a story inside them. It's very important that the director should have the fire in the belly to tell the story.
Aamir Khan

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Appearance Right Things Thinking
Thomas Paine

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
Acceptance Advice Conduct People
John Greenleaf Whittier

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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Life Perfection Warning Subtlety
Walter Scott

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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Best Meaningful Music Appreciation
John Greenleaf Whittier

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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
Acting Hollywood Information Movies
Gene Tierney

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If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
Dick Cheney

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Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.
Xi Jinping

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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Death Power Penalty / Chastisement Conviction
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Love
Paulo Coelho

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For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.
Alexis Bledel

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Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
Men Anger Blood Wars
David Lloyd George

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
Advice People Socialism Duty
Thomas Mann

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I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.
Candace Owens

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I believe everything happens for a reason.
Nelly

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Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.
Religion Education Truth God
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Humor Life Men Zeal
Sir Thomas Browne

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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Religion Experience
George Washington

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For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.
Struggles
Dave Bautista

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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Life Meaningful Sarcasm Satire
Thomas Hobbes

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Humor is reason gone mad.
Humor
Groucho Marx

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The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Money Courage
Marlon Brando

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There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
Communication Good
Annie Leibovitz

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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Growth Work
Audre Lorde

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Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Things Change
Alexander Hamilton

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I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
Attitude Personality Character Sentiment
Adolf Hitler

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Achievement Purpose Support Efficiency
Thomas Jefferson

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I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.
Steven Rodney McQueen

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The fans are the biggest reason we do what we do.
Chester Bennington

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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Lord Byron

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Business
William Blake

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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Good Opinion Community Rule
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Love
Anais Nin

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The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Football Women
Phyllis Diller

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Tonight I will make a tun of wine, Set myself up with two bowls of it; First I will divorce absolutely reason and religion, Then take to wife the daughter of the vine.
Religion Daughters Divorce Wives
Omar Khayyam

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Pollution Protests Safety Corruption
Thomas More

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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Life Delivery Problems Daughters
Gene Tierney

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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Necessity Economics Kindness Mistakes
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Art Industry
Gavin Newsom

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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
Annie Leibovitz

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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Attitude Cost Repentance Fear
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Character Cleverness Reality Wisdom
Helen Rowland

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We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.
Love
Stevie Nicks

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We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.
Society Weak Point
Jessica Chastain

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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
Val Kilmer

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I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.
Courtney Love

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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Voltaire

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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
People Desire Predestination Greed
Thomas Mann

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We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
Ideas
Jeff Bezos

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The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.
Dr. Dre

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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Love
Blaise Pascal

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What's the reason I'm playing basketball? I do it because I love it, I do it because of my family, and that's it. I don't do it because of the money. I don't do it because of the fame. I just do it because I love it, and I do it for my family because my family enjoys it.
Family Love Money
Giannis Antetokounmpo

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Education
Michel de Montaigne

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The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.
Jesse Plemons

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It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.
Steve Nash

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The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
Work
Hugh Grant

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I've never had a problem with nudity, but I don't put it out there without a reason.
Eva Mendes

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It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty.
People Character
Chris Pine

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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Things Psychosis
Andre Gide

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The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck

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When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.
Humor Retirement Sanity Sarcasm
George Carlin

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My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
Music Movies
Will Smith

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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown

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The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
Acting Kids
Katharine McPhee

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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Life
Henry James

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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
Lewis Carroll

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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Ambrose Bierce

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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
Chance Trust Good Fortune
Edgar Watson Howe

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The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.
Money Music Community
Donald Glover

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