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14 quotesNever ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
Motives
Sir James M. Barrie
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Action
Jean De La Bruyere
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Motives
Lord Byron
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Law and Lawyers
Miguel De Cervantes
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No one does anything from a single motive.
Motivation
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
Motives
George Eliot
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Purpose
George Eliot
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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
Motivation
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.
Passion
Claude A. Helvetius
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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.
Passion
Claude A. Helvetius
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Kindness
Eric Hoffer
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Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
Selfishness
Mme. Roland
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Motives
Oscar Wilde
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
People
Mao Zedong
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun