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
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
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“If you press people to identify the motives behind their self-interest it usually boils down to four items: money, power, status, and… — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I sort of assume everyone has ulterior motives. People aren't necessarily like that, but I'm a paranoid person. — Alex G Copy Share Image
I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do. — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“how could I have been so naive before, thinking perhaps everyone had good motives, that everyone has a good side to them,… — Lotus Rose Copy Share Image
“I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing?" " Motive - Don't know. " "What… — Pamela Branch Copy Share Image
“Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are… — Edmund Burke 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
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
“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
“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
The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right… — Sebastian Barry 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
“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
“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
“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
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. — Philip Yancey 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
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what were doing. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
