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The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
— Charlotte Lennox
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
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
— George Muller
The deeds and motive of man define his personality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.
— Zygmunt Bauman
We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.
— Craig Groeschel
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What was paramount in the apostles' earliest motives was oral proclamation of the gospel. They wanted to disseminate the word as quickly as possible.
— J. Ed Komoszewski
There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
— Carl Bernstein
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
— Neil Gaiman
But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation.
— John Le Carre
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
— Albert Einstein
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.
— Edward L. Bernays
My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil.
— Munia Khan
I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.
— Julio Cortazar
He is guilty, but he will be acquitted, from motives of humanity, in accordance with the new ideas, the new sentiments that had come into fashion,
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Growing up means learning to dig beneath surface behavior and discern the true motives of others, and to respond to intent, not behavior.
— Ramon Stevens
Inspiration is allowed to do whatever it wants to, in fact, and it is never obliged to justify its motives to any of us.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.
— Ben Brantley
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
— Charles Dudley Warner
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
— Kate Smith
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.
— Jimmy Carl Black
Bushido. The sense of honor which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power, - that was the strongest of motives.
— Inazo Nitobe
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
— William Ellery Channing
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
— Eugene Ionesco
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.
— Gore Vidal
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Regardless of his motives or his methods, Rhysand was keeping me alive. And had done so even before I set foot Under the Mountain.
— Sarah J. Maas
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
— Miguel De Unamuno
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives - altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter.
— Richard J. Foster
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.
— George A. Sheehan
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
— Albert Einstein
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
— William Hazlitt
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
— Glenn Greenwald
He carries around a notebook where he keeps a list of suspects and motives so the police will have leads if he ever turns up murdered
— Stephanie Tromly
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
— Eric Hoffer
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
— Isaac Asimov
We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.
— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.
— Maria Montessori
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
— Edmund Burke
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.
— Lewis Carroll
When we all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, we will have our true motives revealed.
— Billy Graham
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
— Earle Brown
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
I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.
— Roman Abramovich
Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.
— Dave
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
— Thomas Mann
When you constantly question the motives of others you can't see them in their truest form.
— Jayce O'Neal
And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I have done since.
— Tony Burgess
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
— Luc De Clapiers
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Even truth becomes just another weapon of division and violence, when shared with impure motives and a defiled heart.
— Hope D. Blackwell
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.
— Dag Hammarskjold
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
— Ray Bradbury
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
— Francis Schaeffer
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
— James Madison
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.
— Eugene O'Neill
One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Aren't we the strangest amalgamation of motives and misspent dreams?
— Susan Kiernan-Lewis
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
— Patricia Richardson
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
The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
— Raymond Holliwell
The Lord weighs the motive of every heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
— Charles Darwin
As much as she was capable at deciphering the motives of others, she was dreadful at doing the same for herself.
— Eric Rickstad
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me ... and not knowing what people's motives might be.
— Amanda Seyfried
If you live among dogs they'll think you've the motives of a dog.
— Ford Madox Ford
Motives for greed and selfishness are often attributed to toil and source of riches.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
— Athol Fugard
Love, and consequently fear, of the crowd being one of the most powerful motives in all human beings ...
— Marcel Proust
Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.
— Jefferson Smith
