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Motives Quotes
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives
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 sinister and interested motives if they can.
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Trust is pervasive and inevitable because future contingencies and motives are never completely known.
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
The most henious and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
The most advanced methods of science and rational calculation in the hands of a social system that is at odds with human needs produce nothing but irrationality; the more advanced the science and the more rational the calculations, the more swiftly and calamitously is this irrationality engendered. Like Captain Ahab, the capitalists say, “all my means are sane, my motives and object mad.”
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Many people live righteously for selfish or misguided reasons. If you are striving to please God, examine your motives today.
Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
It's very difficult to explain what I do. It is much more instinctive than you realize; much, much more. ... the reasons that make me interested in a subject are, how shall I say, fickle. Many times I have chosen, among three stories, one for reasons that are entirely accidental: I get up and think this one will be stupendous because the night before I had a certain dream. Or perhaps I put it better by saying that I had found inside myself reasons why this particular story seems more valid. ... I always have motives, but I forget them.
To shut our eyes to the part that John Smith plays in the perpetuation of unworkable policies, in building up the forces of which he becomes the victim, is to perpetuate his victimization. The only means by which he can be liberated from the evil power of organized minorities is by making him aware of the nature of the impulses and motives to which the exploiters so successfully appeal. If such phenomena as nationalism, for instance, can assume forms that are gravely dangerous, it is because the nationalist appeal finds response in deep human impulses, instincts, in psychological facts which we must face.
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