The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.” — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena. — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
“Motives are story mechanics, pillars of structural necessity. Without them, you’re fuckled, sideways…With a giant piranha covered pogo stick.” — Sacha Black Copy Share Image
Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“I have to wonder if you're not being slightly naive here. I mean, are you saying that you want nothing for people?… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
There are so many different ways to lead. The most important thing is to be genuine. To have people around you trust… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
“People talk of their motives in a cut and dried way. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Every second of every day, a man is the sum effect of every second that has touched him before; he routinely encounters… — John Pipkin Copy Share Image
“I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It can also be useful to politics, enabling that science to discover how much of it is no more than verbal construction,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Two motives urge fans to obsession with their sports. One is the need-—through the appeal of vicarious success—-to identify with winners. The… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation. — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts. — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Copy Share Image
It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
