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Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the… — Criss Jami
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own. — Ella Maillart
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to… — Christopher Dodd
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and… — Henry Louis Gates
Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. — Gary Zukav
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and… — John Stuart Mill
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. — Franz Kafka
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be. — Eugen Kogon
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. — Charles Mengel Allen
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human… — George Bernard Shaw
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… — Charles Caleb Colton
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… — Charles Caleb Colton
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are. — George A. Sheehan
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your… — Frederick Lenz
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess… — Baltasar Gracian
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is… — John Henry Newman
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world. — Jean-Paul Sartre
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes… — Emile Chartier
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Katharine Whitehorn
All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. — William Shakespeare
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. — Eric Hoffer
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell

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