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“A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness

“When the minds of men slip from realities to fantasies without thinking of the future consequences, then we must ponder. When the hearts of men are entangled with what though might seem great but yet, specious ambitions without pondering over the resulting footprints, then we ought to take precautions. When the hands of men unwittingly and for the sake of self-gratification find the right weapons and dexterity for the wrong purpose, then massacre and cruelties leave indelible footprints of sorrow and bitterness in the hearts of men. We shall always look back to the footprints of yesterday to say had we know if we don’t take a critical look at today’s footsteps. There is always an alternative that is better than good”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Jealousy is a detestable motive.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Do not feed your motives, just feed the bears.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The Lord weighs the motive of every heart.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is a rationale for every action.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“All of the best motives boiled down to a single, driving emotion.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

“Our present conscious self and our shadow must learn how to coexist. The first step to attaining personal transcendence commences when the conscious mind and the unconscious mind square off and battle for preeminence. A person who achieves self-realization understands the interworking of both their conscious mind and the unconscious mind and integrates their unique dichotomy into their sense of a self. A person who suffers from a personality disorders or neuroses failed to confront their shadow or unsuccessfully integrated the conflicting motives of the conscious mind and the unconscious mind into a central and fully integrated persona.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.”
― Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

“The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires.”
― Raymond Holliwell

“Doing business in the digital age is predicated on doing the business of humanity well.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Durkon: You're only saying that because you don't want the world to end.

Roy: Of course I'm only saying that because I don't want the world to end. This is not an otherwise common topic of conversation .”
― Rich Burlew, Utterly Dwarfed

“God knows the motives of every man.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“God knows the motive of every man.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The deeds and motive of man define his personality.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.”
― Boris Johnson

“The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in a
contradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,
since he denies it by his actions.”
― Fredrich Von Bernhardi

“Not only the right thing is the right thing, but doing the right out of the right motives is the right thing.”
― Kabelo Mabona

“Our motives are useless if we don’t start acting it out”
― Sunday Adelaja

“In every bad situation we have to see Satan’s motives behind a person’s actions”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Every mans heart speaks, where no one can see, it reveals the motives for our action, and many times the motives are not good”
― Oluseyi Akinbami

“That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.”
― Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness

“Judge behavior, not motives.”
― Miles Anthony Smith, Why Leadership Sucksâ„� Volume 2: The Pain, Pitfalls, and Challenges of Servant Leadership Fundamentals

“Not only the right thing is the right thing but doing the right thing from the right motives is the right thing.”
― Kabelo Mabona

“Not only the right thing is the right thing, but doing the right out of the right motives is the right thing.”
― Mabona Kabelo