Motives Quotes

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. Robert A. Heinlein
Government You Oppression Result Matter Tyranny Church Say Must See Know Forbidden Read How Motives Subjects End End Result Any May Holy
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. Mahatma Gandhi
Everything About Tainted He Becomes Does Motives Person Suspicion Moment
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. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Life Truth Speak Fear Light Others Our Hesitate Tell Silent Divine Longer Policy Opinions Souls Motives Begin Us Should Moment Floods Flow
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy. Robert Kraft
Jealousy You Sometimes Envy Everybody Well Motives Legitimate After
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. Saint Teresa of Avila
Ignorance Peace People Lose Other Our Criticizing Disturb Trivial Through Wrongly Always Souls Real Motives May Often Which Them Actions Even Defects
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. Ayn Rand
Good Stupidity Say Neither Force Nor Motive Motives Ever Desire
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! Confucius
Man Consider Pleasures Observe Simply Conceal Look Employs Himself His Motives Cannot Which Means
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. Abraham Maslow
Thoughts Communication Human Being Sometimes Behavior Language Defense Way Hiding Preventing Concealing Motives Human Being Your
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. Charles Darwin
Past Others Approving Moral Some Disapprove His Motives Reflecting Being Capable Who Actions
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good People Good Deeds Our Saw Would Frequently Motives Ashamed Them Produced Deeds
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing. Joyce Meyer
God Important More Reveal Doing Motives Than Which Why Actually
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. Thomas Mann
Needs You People Goals Behavior Sense Think About Terms Makes Motives
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. John Coleman
Environmental History Political Offended Illusion Long Scam Rapid Some Data Highly Long-Term Term Global Global Warming Scientific Greatest Am Amazed Scientists Motives Manipulated Warming Create Appalled
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. Robert Byrd
Law Witness Men Nation Unjust Unlike Mussolini Laws Never Cruel Majority How Motives Italy Germany Stopped Being Ends Manipulate
I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego. Sylvia Plath
Myself Ego Discipline Symptom Unless Later Latter Plots Must Record Unproductive Rather Purpose Pointless Merely Knit Also Without Dialogue Motives Than Trying Probe Sensations Story Create Descriptions Imaginative
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer
Kindness Judge Made Become Own Futile Kind Motive Motives Being Deed
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. Larry David
War Army National Guard President President Bush Finally Those Having Put Because Motives Questioned End National Guard Up Stood Happier Bush Height Vietnam Vietnam War Who Reserve Served
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. P. D. James
Today People Mysteries Nowadays Secrets Guilty Out Sexual Preventing Sort Coming Were Motives Sell Which Credible
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. Philip Zimbardo
Heroes Power Situation Others Ways Those Easily Out Somehow Noble Motives Behave Act Who Resist
I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters. Tyga
Sometimes Try Everybody Characters Motives Just Different Different Characters Personalities Different Personalities Cool
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions. Noam Chomsky
Analyze Hidden Lies Causes Motives Governments According Intellectuals Often Intentions Expose Actions Position
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. Quentin Crisp
Opportunity Rudeness Living Strongest Combined Motives Provides Maximum Displaying
In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us. Chuck Palahniuk
You Just Be Our Circumstances Inspiration Reaction Around Motives Diary Motto Get Just Where Us Really Coaches Your Aware
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. Andrew Jackson
Happy Power Affection Every Increased Our Diminution Enterprise Members Gives Individual Arising Support New Motives Confederacy Burdens Patriotic Public Taxation
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. Archibald Alexander
Men Else Consists Morality More Primarily Motives Affections Accountable Than Anything Anything Else
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. Athol Fugard
Writing Complex Kind Mystery Genesis Come Motives Converge Certain Play Things
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