#motives

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #motives




We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.


Edward Dahlberg


#act #because #difficult #even #evil

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.


Thomas Reid


#circumstances #effect #fact #fixed #influence

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#psychology #money

I survive at the edge of friends circles.


Holly Black


#dark #deceit #friends #lie #motives

If you make a choice in this conference and you stick to it to be an excellent person in everything you do and you stick to it especially to be excellent when nobody is looking and do it not to get a result but to glorify God you’re going to have peace and joy and you’re going to have results. My concern is that if we just do something to get results then we’re not likely to follow things all the way through to the finish, because we get very discouraged, and I think that’s one of the reasons we have such discouragement among people. “Well, I’m doing this, and I expected to get a breakthrough before now.” ….. Well, I think God has to purify our hearts and get us to the point where we are not just doing something right just to get something!


Joyce Meyer


#motivational

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because we feel powerless, invisible, unheard. We crave celebrity, but that’s not easy to come by, so we settle for notoriety. Envy and bitterness drive a new breed of lawbreakers, replacing the old motives of poverty and the need for escape. But how do you solve crimes which no longer have traditional motives?


Christopher Fowler


#crime #crime-solving #habits #motives #poverty

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.


Criss Jami


#battle #bias #combat #discernment #disputes

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


Archibald Alexander


#affections #anything #consists #else #men

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.


Mason Cooley


#motives #other #people #recognizing #same

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.


Janos Kadar


#joined #leave #motives #ones #other