#motive

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#another #another man #charge #deal #good

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#behavior #goals #makes #motives #needs

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ↗

— Saint Teresa

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We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ↗

— Paul Gallico

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Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#controversy #enemies #fools #issues #motives

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#any #based #between #brothers #calculations

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Oscar Wilde

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Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#questioning #wisdom #motivational