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Motives Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed…
- Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to…
- 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…
- 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…
- Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to…
- Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation…
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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… — 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… — 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… — Robert Byrd
- Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them… — Nick Clegg
- There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton
- We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told… — Richard Branson
- ...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of… — Arthur Koestler
- We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give… — Jacob Bronowski
- CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in… — Paul Weyrich
- And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — 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… — P.J. O'Rourke