#motive

You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours! ↗

— Enid Blyton

#decisions #firm #honesty #judgement #motives

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. ↗

— Heather Mills

#been #constant #denying #life #motive

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ↗

— Confucius

#conceal #consider #employs #himself #his

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#call #emotive #i #later #myself

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#people #thoughts #unaware #which

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#collection #dynamics #egos #go #individuals

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#allowing #bubble #commercial #control #creative

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#carried #excuse #moral #motive #out

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#being #deed #futile #judge #kind