I'm sorry, you leftists: you're not the only people whose motives are pure. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“motives for greed and selfishness are often attributed to toil and source of riches.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part. — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for… — Bram Fischer Copy Share Image
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
“You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
I can understand that people who have a very different view to mine are motivated by the purest of motives. All I… — Scott Morrison Copy Share Image
Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we… — Ernest Becker 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
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the… — Franz Kafka 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
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
“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
“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
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
“The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Looking back through the last page or two, I see that I have made it appear as though my motives in writing… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If you make a choice in this conference and you stick to it to be an excellent person in everything you do… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives. — Grant Cardone Copy Share Image
World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“When you constantly question the motives of others you can't see them in their truest form.” — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
“Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
