I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

- John Eldredge

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.

- Joyce Meyer

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

- James M. Barrie

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

- George Eliot

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

- Ella Maillart

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

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

- Charles Mengel Allen

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

- Albert Ellis

And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

- Chris Matthews

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

- Cornelia Funke

There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

- Carl Bernstein

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

- Confucius

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

I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.

- Brendan I. Koerner

For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.

- Barton Gellman

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

- Archibald Alexander

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

- Athol Fugard