107 Quotes About Motives
- Author Lord Byron
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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- Author Boris Johnson
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The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
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- Author Donna Lynn Hope
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Nothing shocks me anymore...except pure intentions.
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- Author Brandon Sanderson
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All of the best motives boiled down to a single, driving emotion.
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- Author Christopher Hitchens
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Very often, people embarking on such guesswork make the vulgar assumption that the lower the motives, the more likely they are to be authentic.
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- Author Dale Carnegie
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Doing business in the digital age is predicated on doing the business of humanity well.
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- Author Edward L. Bernays
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Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.
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- Author Sebastian Barry
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The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them. This is a little-known truth, but I think it is a truth nonetheless. Empirically, from all the years of my work, I would attest to that. I know it is a miraculous conclusion, but there it is. We like to make strangers of everyone. We are not wolves, but lambs astonished in the margins of the fields by sunlight and summer.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.
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