One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Common people have wishes but extra ordinary people have motives — Jawahar Lal Nehru Copy Share Image
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Humble me so I do what is right. Break me so I cling to You. Expose me so my motives stay pure.” — alisa hope wagner Copy Share Image
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all… — John Locke Copy Share Image
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but… — David Frum Copy Share Image
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you are doing a film for money or to help a friend out, be clear about the motives and then finish… — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
“..:At times, with or without knowing, we awake something or some things in people that could be either a blessing or a… — Rafael Garcia Copy Share Image
Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all,… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
“Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can… — African Spir Copy Share Image
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The motives behind scientism are culturally significant. They have been mixed, as usual: genuine curiosity in search of truth; the rage for… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“They were admirable things for the observer - excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Every time I catch myself trying to figure out other people's motives, I'll stop and ask myself: "What did I say or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives? — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
