Quotes About Motives

My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.

If money is the only plus, I will always say no. But, if there's more, than I'm down.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

A truth that's told with bad intention beats all the lies you can invent.

First I will unfold the causes that led to the foundation of the New Plymouth Settlement, and the motives of those concerned in it. In order that I may give an accurate account of the project, I must begin at the very root and rise of it; and this I shall endeavour to do in a plain style and with singular regard to the truth, — at least as near as my slender judgment can attain to it.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

For all we have learned, the fact remains that we do not understand in any meaningful way why people do what they do, and likely never will.

Costner's film captured the main character's motives, while removing 30 IQ points.

I had been heaping up my devotions before God, fasting, praying, &c. pretending, and indeed really thinking sometimes, that I was aiming at the glory of God; whereas I never once truly intended it, but only my own happiness. I

humans are no less eager than in the past to dominate, degrade, humiliate, and control—often in order to confirm their own sense of pride and superiority. (Adam Smith wrote in 1776 that this was the main motive for slavery.) But