Motives Quotes
Motives Quote of the day
Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.
A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.
Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality
in so far as we cherish the tangibles, we must value the intangibles. The intangibles, though as latent as they may seem to be, they are solemnly tangible.
We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.
That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.
The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.
The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims, since he denies it by his actions.
I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.
You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.
Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something.
It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.
Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.
People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning of Chicago or a Presidential election in our day.
Not only the right thing is the right thing, but doing the right out of the right motives is the right thing.
We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion
Passion for knowledge, motivation for continuous learning.
I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.
Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.
We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.
...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...
When you are worried about thinking why you can't, you are losing the reasons why you should.
I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.
