Motives Quotes

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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 not real defects… — Teresa of Avila
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. — James M. Barrie
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without… — Henry Ward Beecher
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and… — Robert Byrd
Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best… — Nick Clegg
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind… — Alexander Hamilton
We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were… — Richard Branson
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion… — Arthur Koestler
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head. — Jacob Bronowski
CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are… — Paul Weyrich
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on… — P.J. O'Rourke
The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God… — Glenn Archer
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so… — Charlotte Mason
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent… — J. William Fulbright
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they… — William Hazlitt
The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means by which they… — James Petigru Boyce
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. — Robert Higgs
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country,… — Omar Bongo

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