“ Work done with selfish motives is inferior by far to the selfless service or Karma-yoga. Therefore be a Karma-yogi, O Arjuna. Those who seek. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. ”
- Robert Anderson- Copy
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“ If no action is to be deemed virtuous for which malice can imagine a sinister motive, then there never was a virtuous action; no, not even in the life of our Saviour Himself. But He has taught us to judge the tree by its fruit, and to leave motives to Him who can alone see into them. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ If no other test or measure of the strength of motives can be found but their prevailing, then this boasted principle will be only an identical proposition, and signify only that the strongest motive is the strongest motive, and the motive that prevails is the motive that prevails - which proves nothing. ”
- Thomas Reid- Copy
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“ If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel. ”
- Mark Russell- Copy
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“ We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 299
“ We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out. ”
- Jimmy Webb- Copy
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“ Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ”
- Sir James M. Barrie- Copy
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“ Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us. ”
- Marie de Sevigne- Copy
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“ From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one — to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve. ”
- Sir Alec Guiness- Copy
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“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”
- Thorstein Veblen- Copy
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“ The knee-jerk unbending and what I consider to be unfair attacks on Sen. Leahy's motives were unjustified. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
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“ The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ The Army has carried the American … ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. ”
- Tom Lehrer- Copy
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“ If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce. ”
- Geena Davis- Copy
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“ I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diner's Club. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. ”
- A.A. Milne- Copy
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“ And thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit — such are the just grounds for the regrets I have … ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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