Quotes About Motives

The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

I have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives.

Your shadow is the accumulation of untamed emotions, less-than-pure motives and thoughts that, while largely unconscious, strongly influence and shape your behaviors. It is the damaged but mostly hidden version of who you are.

Gregory of Nazianus taught around AD 370: "The responsibility of pastoral office is great indeed, and no one ought to enter who has not deeply examined motive and ability, who has not struggled against call in the face of godly demands of office and the frailty of mere humanity.

Sin embargo, dado que entre intelectuales nunca creo en "malentendidos" (esto es diferente en el caso de las personas ingenuas), sino que sistemáticamente parto de lecturas falsas intencionales, es decir, de reflejos condicionados de segundo grado, me parece razonable investigar los motivos de las interpretaciones erróneas evidentes. Por el momento, me limito al caso de Münkler

Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives (1988) by John Douglas

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

There it was again: conscience. Lincoln believed he was acting according to motives higher than the merely political. "The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance," Lincoln had written to the Quaker Eliza P. Gurney in September. "Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

We have seen the hard looks and heard the statements in which not each other's ideas are challenged, but each other's motives." He

This is bizarre," Dan said. "I find it really strange—the way you're approaching this. You must be one of the very few people who have chosen to come on Twitter and use their own name as their Twitter name. Who does that? And that's why I'm a little suspicious of your motives, Jon. That's why I say I think you're using it as brand management.

asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?"  I answered "they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief.  Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration. 

How low an opinion I had of human wisdom and integrity, when I was truly informed of the springs and motives of great enterprises and revolutions in the world, and of the contemptible accidents to which they owed their success

He [Homer Lane] says much that the student in training college does not learn: the lesson that one must go deep, seek motives, approve, live with children without insisting on dignity or respect — which both generally imply fear.

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.

Disciplines done for the wrong reasons actually sabotage transformation and numb us toward God and the truth. When we use spiritual practices to gain secondary things like spiritual cachet, success, approval and respect, we rob the discipline of its God-given grace.

The ultimate and most profound reason for the German decline is the fact that the racial problem was ignored, and that its importance in the historical development of nations wasn't grasped. Events that take place in the life of nations are not due to chance, but are the natural results of the effort to conserve and multiply the species and the race--even if people aren't conscious of the inner motives of their conduct.

Believe not when you hear that a rich person has done a charity.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Don't fear His silence. Use it to examine your heart and motives. Listen expectantly for the silence to be broken by the glory of His manifested presence once again in your life.

It's not natural for members of a society to adopt a calm, rational stance towards a group of people who violate social restrictions to act in a contrary fashion in all matters. Society is bound to misunderstand them, ascribing perverse motives to their straightforward actions, viewing as evil whatever they regard as good. So it should be. It is one of the penalties to be paid for deliberately breaking social laws.

My obvious happiness and open, sharing nature made me vulnerable to people with ulterior motives.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

I'm an excellent judge of character. I can tell people who want something from me or if they're actually buddies.

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.