Motives Quotes
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Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?
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A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
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He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
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During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn't question their motives.
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Attitudes turning into motives, meeting resistance, creating conflict, and leading to consequences—becoming plot.
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You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
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I realised I was tiring of our games, fed up with trying to second guess his motives, weary of trying to hold myself aloof so that I wouldn't lose face.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.
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Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
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See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?
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There are indeed people with ulterior motives who don't wish Chinese swimming well; they even don't wish Asian swimming well. We cannot let these people's plans succeed.
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If we rush ceaselessly through disconnected activities without checking in on our moods or motives, we can lose track of ourselves; in a sense, we lose the ability to experience our experiences.
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Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.
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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
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One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.
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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
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It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.
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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
