“...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It helps that I know God’s motives are good even when he allows bad things to happen.” — Lynette Eason Copy Share Image
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“This was what growing up was about: hide the corpse, don't bare your heart, do make assumptions about the motives of others.… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with it's painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to… — Grant Von Harrison Copy Share Image
“unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“All motives can be explained under the letter L: lust, lucre, loathing and love. They'll tell you the most dangerous is loathing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Maybe sometimes the motive behind people’s terrorizing acts isn’t just because of their beliefs or past or some complex and twisted logic.… — David Torres Copy Share Image
Since women ask me about male motives all the time, I can offer a bit of advice. If you feel like you're… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to… — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“We knew that social comparison motives were out of harmony with our deeper values and could lead to conditional love and eventually… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
You can really think a person has your back when their purpose or their intentions are, you know, could really just be,… — Ciara Copy Share Image
“To be logical you have to dig up and face your own hidden motives and emotions, and of course they're hidden principally… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“Many people generally think of it as a sincere desire to help the other person to be more realistic, behave in more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In summary, our minds are built to sabotage information in order to come out ahead in social games. When big parts of… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
“Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made… — Jan Potocki Copy Share Image
