I'm sorry you leftists, you're not the only people whose motives are pure.
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.
I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me. . . and not knowing what people's motives might be.
There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three—body, mind, or soul—can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression.
Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves - along with others - about our reasons and motives.
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 vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.
The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
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. . . .
Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.
Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied.