Good Motives Quotes
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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
-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
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
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
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
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