Motives Quotes

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

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.

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.