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• 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

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