Motives Quotes · Page 7

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain…

— Athol Fugard

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

— Robert Breault

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I don't speculate about the motives - the political motives of the political motives of personal attacks.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

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

— Raymond Holliwell

Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing…

— Stephen Harper

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task…

— Frederick Lenz

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Some are motivated by a desire to mould the law to expand the rights of the downtrodden, while other may be motivated…

— Prashant Bhushan

Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy,…

— Ha-Joon Chang

I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self…

— Ron Conway

I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an…

— John Ortberg

Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion…

— Steven Pinker

Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving…

— James Cook

I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real…

— Kevin Durant

Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to…

— Bob Odenkirk

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such…

— William Ellery Channing

“It is hard not to question my own motives, for I realize now that I have been trained since birth to blame…

— Robin LaFevers

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western…

— William Pfaff

One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment -…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand…

— Gray Davis

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

— Simone Weil

Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always…

— Emma Tennant

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain…

— Jack Vance

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

— Edmund Burke

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming…

— P. D. James

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed…

— Anonymous

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

— John Eldredge

“People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning of Chicago or a Presidential…

— Edward Payson Roe

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

— Betsy Russell

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

— C.P. Snow

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and…

— Dee Dee Myers

Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

— Confucius

“Most known motives are so suspect these days that I doubt whether the hidden ones are any better. All the same,”

— J.G. Ballard

“Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality”

— Thrity Umrigar

We can not too much or too often warn against the lax or even base manner of thought which seeks its principles…

— Kant