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Motive Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed…
- Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to…
- The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
- The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed…
- There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim…
- Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to…
- Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation…
More Motive Quotes
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
- If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people… — J. G. Ballard
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. — James M. Barrie
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above… — Ezra Taft Benson
- We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our… — Mortimer Adler
- It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. — Jean de la Bruyere
- We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men… — Robert Byrd
- We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. — Lord Byron