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

Man Motive Noble Stupid
The noblest motive is the public good.
VIRGIL

Goodness Motive Noble One Liner Public
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
RAMAKRISHNA

Doe Good Himself Man Motive Selfish
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
JANE AUSTEN

Couple Distance Friendship Love Motive One Liner
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

Death Judgement Kind Kindness Motive Ourselves
The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Art Come Exist Higher Motive Notion Something
Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
SRI AUROBINDO

Consciousness Evolution Existence Motive
Never lose that honesty, Bobby – always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly – and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!
ENID BLYTON

Always Bad Character Country Decision Good Honest Motive Muddled Our People Person Strong
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
THOMAS MANN

Goal Motive Need People Yourself
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Desire Home Mind Motive Passion Ruling School Spur
One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me.
ABRAHAM KUYPER

Acted Escape Mind Motive Seek Sooner Spur Upon
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Church End Forbidden Government Holy Matter Motive Oppression Result Subject Tyranny Undertake
The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.
SRI AUROBINDO

Motive Personal Purity Spiritual Work
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Aim Disease Divide Eye Hurry Life Motive Sick Vision
The butterfly’s attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it.
PRIMO LEVI

Attractiveness Butterfly Color Contribute Deeper Derive Motive Only Symmetry
I value science–none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
ABRAHAM COLES

Heart Motive Prize Religious Science Thousand Value
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Dare Love Motive Natural Woman
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
JANE FONDA

Concern Control Culture Motive Ourselves Profit
The motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSON

Democracy Love Motive Power
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Continue Country Doubt Draw Everyone First Force Foremost Man Motive Own Remain
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Goodness Man Motive Opinion Ourselves Strong Virtue
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Christ Evolution Force Motive Say Term
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
GEORGE ELIOT

Dreary Life Make Motive Want
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Goal Hollow Motive Place Show True
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Accord Analyze Cause Expose Government Hidden Intension Itelluction Motive Often Position
There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
E. M. FORSTER

Actual Conduct Inner Life Moment Motive Pay Scrutiny Self Suddenly Use Year
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce

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