“It helps that I know God’s motives are good even when he allows bad things to happen.” — Lynette Eason 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
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. — Mignon McLaughlin 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
