Motives Quotes


You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas. - Dougray Scott


You can really think a person has your back when their purpose or their intentions are, you know, could really just be, their motives, you know, could really be more so just business-driven, you know, and not to take things too personal. It's very important. Understanding a situation, if it's in business, you understand it, you will treat it that way. But if you start to be emotional about it and take things personally, then you'll react that way and my advice is definitely just to really be aware. Keep your eyes open and to be careful about trusting everyone. - Ciara


Work done with selfish motives is inferior by far to the selfless service or Karma-yoga. Therefore be a Karma-yogi, O Arjuna. Those who seek [to enjoy] the fruits of their work are verily unhappy [because one has no control over the results]. - Bhagavad Gita


With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. - Thorstein Veblen


Wilkinson had a lot of high-powered influence in the United States, Spain and France. Wilkinson commissioned Pike, but what were his motives? He had already sent men into New Orleans and Texas (still under Spanish control) on filibusters or spying missions. He was making contact with Spanish viceroys and selling information to Spain (U.S. military arrangements for $12,000). - Deborah Espinosa


Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


While California does have some of the cleanest cars in the world, certainly some of the cleanest businesses in the world, we have the same old dirty ships that you'll find in any port in the world and to a large extent the same old dirty polluting locomotives that you'll find anywhere in the country. - Sam Atwood


Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. - Oscar Wilde


When you decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime, you want to know as many facts as possible. You want to know what their motive is. ... You want to know their intent. ... If you are asking me what his motives were, I can't tell you. - Patrick Fitzgerald


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