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As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.
-Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor. — David Eddings

The meanest interests of all His saints are all borne upon the broad bosom of the Son of God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else. — Margaret Atwood

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you. — Frederick Lenz

The important thing is to not walk alone, but to rely on each other as brothers and sisters — Pope Francis

Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips. — Irvin S. Cobb

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. — Eugene Ionesco

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I never suffered for lack of confidence. I knew I would succeed; you have to. I think I couldn't go into any venture any other way. — Brian Williams

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts. — John Piper

Anger is the poorest of counselors, and revenge is suicide. — Elizabeth Blair Lee

Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic ... — John Geddes

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives? — Laurence J. Peter

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? — Thomas Jefferson

Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people. — Stephen Harper

I didn't like dogs. Not because they scared me - they didn't - but because their deaths were so much harder to take than people's. — Ottessa Moshfegh

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature — John Locke

I guess I just had trouble shaking that
feeling that I had to take care of everything because no one else could do it right. — Richelle Mead

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. — Edward Dahlberg

for the Christian, good acts are not the cover for improper motives but, instead, the fruit borne of a loving relationship with God. — Timothy Joseph Golden

Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Working for Oprah is a dream come true. She was on my dream board for the longest time. — Tika Sumpter

It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself. — Jocelyn Murray

Matter what your father plans, nor what his motives might be. God will prevail. God will use everything to His good purpose if you love and trust Him. — Francine Rivers

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do. — Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man. — Mark Twain

We are all very good at rationalizing our actions so that they are in line with our selfish motives. — Dan Ariely

What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law? — Jodi Picoult

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. — Philip Yancey

To do good is a divine grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something. — Henry Cloud

The fault is not in our stars," I whispered to the ceiling. "But in ourselves. This was my choice. — Susan Dennard

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. — Mother Teresa

A man can appear to be a part of something not-so-good on its face, but don't take it upon yourself to judge him unless you know his motives as well. — Harper Lee