Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing. Votes: 4
Joyce MeyerMotives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. Votes: 3
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. Votes: 2
Mahatma GandhiWhenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. Votes: 2
Oscar WildePeople's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. Votes: 2
Thomas MannWomen don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. Votes: 0
Rex StoutNever question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. Votes: 0
Dwight D. EisenhowerNumberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldWho is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGreat effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life Votes: 0
William Ellery ChanningI'm sorry you leftists, you're not the only people whose motives are pure. Votes: 0
Andrew BreitbartThe value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenHunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. Votes: 0
William Graham SumnerBehind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldEveryone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part. Votes: 0
Stephen C. MeyerCompanies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values. Votes: 0
Russell BrandThe New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. Votes: 0
Philip YanceyGood and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature Votes: 0
John LockeI am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonRight motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Votes: 0
Mary Baker EddyWorld events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual. Votes: 0
Gore VidalThe beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyMan acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations. Votes: 0
Edmund BurkeA wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaIf you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaThere is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. Votes: 0
Eric HofferThe only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives. Votes: 0
Sri AurobindoBy creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive. Votes: 0
David LuizWhen men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. Votes: 0
Louis-Ferdinand CelineNeither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done. Votes: 0
Julius EvolaMalice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? Votes: 0
Thomas Jeffersonactions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit. Votes: 0
Andre GideIt's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovA man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinGetting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time. Votes: 0
Richard J. MayerEvery woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. Votes: 0
George EliotWhat we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. Votes: 0
Miguel de UnamunoBe careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultMany men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen. Votes: 0
Lord Actonsacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives. Votes: 0
Vijaya Lakshmi PanditHow working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyThe greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation. Votes: 0
Gustave Le BonOne must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be. Votes: 0
Eugen KogonWe would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. Votes: 0
Victor HugoI have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money. Votes: 0
Kate Smithif you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives. Votes: 0
Twyla TharpAll writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Votes: 0
George OrwellYour life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWe should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. Votes: 0
Franz KafkaI wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings. Votes: 0
Graham GreenePrudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden. Votes: 0
William ShenstoneA common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. Votes: 0
George EliotWhy Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts. Votes: 0
John PiperFirst of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time. Votes: 0
Jimmy Carl BlackBut if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all. Votes: 0
C.J. SansomCaregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. Votes: 3 Gary Zukav