“You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.” — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences. — Anonymous 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
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action. — Raymond Holliwell Copy Share Image
I don't speculate about the motives - the political motives of the political motives of personal attacks. — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“People talk of their motives in a cut and dried way. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Walter Isaacson 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
“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
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
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of… — Donald Faison 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
“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
“Two motives urge fans to obsession with their sports. One is the need-—through the appeal of vicarious success—-to identify with winners. The… — Paul Fussell 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
Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“We are all very good at rationalizing our actions so that they are in line with our selfish motives.” — Dan Ariely 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
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
