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What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger… — Leonard Cohen
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever. — Timothy Keller
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together.… — Chris Matthews
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them… — Ernest Becker
Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. — Robert Breault
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and… — Stephen Covey
And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives,… — David Maister
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these… — George Henry Lewes
Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns… — Richard Llewellyn
My means are sane, my motives and my object mad. — Herman Melville
Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives. — Grant Cardone
It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They… — Billy Graham
Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people — LeCrae
Fasting with a pure heart and motives, I have discovered, brings personal revival and adds power to our prayers. Personal revival occurs because fasting is… — Bill Bright
There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or… — James Madison
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. — Mother Teresa
Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in… — Lynn Flewelling
No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this virtuous cycle in… — Paul J. Zak
Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the all-searching eye of… — Frank Bartleman
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by… — Oswald Chambers

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