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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

James M. Barrie

Tags: Your Than Never

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

Oscar Wilde

Tags: Always Thing Man

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

Philip Yancey

Tags: Good Being Us

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

Patricia Richardson

Tags: Money You Never

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

Eric Hoffer

Tags: More Than Social

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

Tags: Go Sometimes Off

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand

Tags: Good Say Ever

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tags: Best Our Them

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.

Michael K. Powell

Tags: Government Me Which

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

Lajos Kossuth

Tags: You Than Feel

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Andrew Jackson

Tags: Power Our Every

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

Robert Byrd

Tags: Men Never Being

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Tags: Time Great History

I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.

Sophie Hannah

Tags: Jealousy You People

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

Adan Canto

Tags: Amazing People Me

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

Bram Fischer

Tags: Time Me More

The string of disqualification cases were filed against me when I was still contemplating a run for the presidency by people whose motives were suspect at best. Powerful groups with personal agenda are behind these cases. But I am not afraid. Not when the people are behind me.

Grace Poe

Tags: Best People Me

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Larry David

Tags: War Who Because

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.

Sylvia Plath

Tags: Than Myself Also

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