We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires.” — Raymond Holliwell Copy Share Image
“Motives are your core values and commitments, what you base your identity on.” — David A. Powlison Copy Share Image
“We are all very good at rationalizing our actions so that they are in line with our selfish motives.” — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There is no better way to understand your own motives and dispositions than by finding someone to act as your opposite. T” — Jedediah Berry Copy Share Image
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We ought to take what our Master has given us and return it to Him with interest (Matt. 25:26–27). But ambition can… — Hannah K. Grieser Copy Share Image
When you look at a character and you're like, "Wow, that's really unexplored terrain for me and there's a lot happening here… — Hoon Lee Copy Share Image
“When the people we meet demonstrate that their presence brings value, consideration, or contribution, we are much more likely to be open,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Our enemy is [. . .] and all people like him, who never question their motives or doubt their desires. They are… — Susan Rivers Copy Share Image
When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
“It is usual to explain the motivation of those who enjoy dangerous activities as some sort of pathological need: they are trying… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“If you make a choice in this conference and you stick to it to be an excellent person in everything you do… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Looking back through the last page or two, I see that I have made it appear as though my motives in writing… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“In giving that as may be constructive in the experience of the entity at this time, who is to say as to… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what were doing. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that those who campaigned for and voted leave in 2016 did so with honourable motives. — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
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