Ulterior Quotes

37 quotes by 33 authors

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country,… — Omar Bongo
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it. — Eric Metaxas
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art.… — Lucian Freud
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
Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The… — Jack Ruby
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him… — Henry Thomas Buckle
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all… — David Livingstone
Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and… — Gene Edwards
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. — Mother Teresa
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of… — Gabrielle
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be… — Eliot Porter
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. — Paul Valery
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not… — Albert Camus
I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an… — Sally Field
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know… — Giancarlo Esposito
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
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
It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to… — Josh Radnor

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