Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for! — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“motives are like little flies flying around in my room. I believe I've killed most of them” — Dmitry Dyatlov Copy Share Image
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Humble me so I do what is right. Break me so I cling to You. Expose me so my motives stay pure.” — alisa hope wagner Copy Share Image
You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena. — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
“Motives are story mechanics, pillars of structural necessity. Without them, you’re fuckled, sideways…With a giant piranha covered pogo stick.” — Sacha Black Copy Share Image
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
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
“Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to… — Adam Brody 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
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives? — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all… — John Locke Copy Share Image
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but… — David Frum Copy Share Image
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process — Albert Bandura 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“There is no better way to understand your own motives and dispositions than by finding someone to act as your opposite. T” — Jedediah Berry Copy Share Image
