Quotes About Motives

I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

You must try to understand truthfully what makes you do things or feel things. Until you have been able to face the truth about yourself you cannot be really sympathetic or understanding in regard to what happens to other people. But it takes courage to face yourself and to acknowledge what motivates you in the things you do.

Every encounter with human truth—Jane Austen deftly showing how little we know our own motives; Dickens revealing the meaning of "economy" in the cheerful and charitable housekeeping of Esther Summerson, his finest heroine; or Shakespeare offering us the foolish Lear, mad and childish and yet "every inch a king"—can expand the soul; it helps to set us free from the common delusions of our time, the lies we believe and the lies we tell. But

A person can be seen happy always by spending time often with many people around him only in two conditions. Either he knows nothing about their true intentions towards him or he thinks merely about own profits rather than any benefit for them.

A person can't trust the people around oneself to the extent s/he has self-interest & lust as dirt & dust spread across from the top to bottom crust of her/his mind.

A self-centric person has tendency to put often own face pic with social media posts & thoughts; it is wise to see his/her hidden selfish intention behind his/her sweet advice or nice words.

A selfless person has either a very less or literally no friends but a selfish does have often many people, hanging around, who just pretend to be his/her friends to fulfill merely their desire or wish.

As the support to a person increases, so should be the rise of the doubt either on his/her intention or on the intent of the people in support or on all of them because we live in a selfish world.

CHECK always the hidden intention of a person who links the good things or thoughts of life with the word CHEQUE.

Life is simple , only it has been made tough for others by some people for their vested-interest.

People are so selfish and clever that they never support the social media post of a person until they see merely own profit stemming out of it or from him there.

People, in general, have a weird or wicked way of defining the nature of a person in this selfish-cum-foolish world. He is considered positive by others till his words or deeds profit them individually, but if his good thoughts or acts affect anyone's vested-interest, then he is called negative by that other guy.

The people, barring a very few in this selfish world, do not appreciate a person's wise words or nice deeds unless and until they get merely their own profit our of it or can extract some sort of benefit out of him/her.

Wait, don't rush to appreciate a political party person who has raised voice against the top authority of the nation and in favour of a common people as soon the real picture will emerge of his true intention.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.

I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter?

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the actions of love; if I no longer love you, you will continue to receive the same actions from me, if for other motives.' Thus the illusion remains in the minds of one's fellow men that the love is unchanged and still the same.

When our head feels too weak to answer the objections of our opponent our heart answers by casting suspicion on the motives behind his objections.