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I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money (Motives Quotes)
But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all (Motives Quotes)
Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes (Motives Quotes)
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives (Motives Quotes)
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue (Motives Quotes)
But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors (Motives Quotes)
The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives (Motives Quotes)
In the temple of science are many mansions... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there (Motives Quotes)
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects (Motives Quotes)
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it (Motives Quotes)
The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they’re more concerned with motives than with results (Motives Quotes)
I don’t know why they’re doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don’t understand the severity of the problem in this state (Motives Quotes)
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas (Motives Quotes)
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish (Motives Quotes)
First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn’t question any of his motives or decisions at the time (Motives Quotes)
There is no music that can’t be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political (Motives Quotes)
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble (Motives Quotes)
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication (Motives Quotes)
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct (Motives Quotes)
The level of your influence will be determined by the effectiveness of your methods and the purity of your motives (Motives Quotes)
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 (Motives Quotes)
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives (Motives Quotes)
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose (Motives Quotes)
Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understand why they make those choices, even if they’re bad. And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted (Motives Quotes)
Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity means nothing but a political and administrative support of terrorist acts (Motives Quotes)
Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is ‘all of a piece’ up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives (Motives Quotes)
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement (Motives Quotes)
... so long as woman labors to second man’s endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction (Motives Quotes)
Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren’t clear, and allow others the room to have different feelings than you. No more assigning hidden motives, prejudging and cutting people off before separating fact from fiction (Motives Quotes)
When you question a man’s motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an interest group, et cetera. It’s awful hard to reach consensus. It’s awful hard to reach across the table and shake hands. No matter how bitterly you disagree, though, it is always possible if you question judgment and not motive (Motives Quotes)