#motive

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

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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

#cause #coming #desires #heart #inner

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. ↗

— Sidney Hook

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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#always #care #going #good #lacking

I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#complicated #course #doubts #feel #getting

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#been #force #great #human #human life