Best Motives Qoutes
443 Motives quotes by 336 unique authors
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Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to…
— George Washington
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I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.
— Mason Cooley
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A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be…
— Jane Porter
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This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.
— Gustave Le Bon
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When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all…
— James McCosh
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Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.
— Stephen Harper
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One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from…
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
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Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust,…
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
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Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
— William Graham Sumner
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With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one’s self useful to himself…
— Dharma Mittra
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It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice and study. Dharma…
— Dharma Mittra
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A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to…
— Eugene O'Neill
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Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of charity because Jesus…
— John Vianney
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Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there -…
— Frederick Lenz
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Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied.
— Frederick Lenz
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Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way,…
— Frederick Lenz
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The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may or may not…
— Frederick Lenz
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White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I…
— Joan Juliet Buck
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It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution…
— Vladimir Lenin
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A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress…
— Roy Blunt
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Beautiful words are ugly motives best friends.
— Steve Fowler
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