Best Motives Proverbs
443 Motives quotes by 336 unique authors
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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
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Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
— Ella Maillart
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
— Franz Kafka
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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
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One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.
— Eugen Kogon
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The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
— Charles Mengel Allen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
— Katharine Whitehorn
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All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.
— William Shakespeare
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There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
— Eric Hoffer
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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
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
— George Orwell
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