When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.
We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.
Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied.
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.
Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . .