No Ulterior Motive Quotes

#1. There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it's not very expensive ... it's very democratic, and everyone has acesss to it. It is: Find someone who needs help and help him for no ulterior motive.

Yossi Vardi

#2. 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

#3. I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

Sally Field

#4. Your love for me is transparent, no hidden agenda, no ulterior motive.

Euginia Herlihy

#5. I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive.

Giancarlo Esposito

#6. The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

Eric Metaxas

#8. The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

Franz Kafka

#9. Just because you made it warm doesn't make it yours

Amelia Gray

#10. Apparently Zara's never had anyone pay attention to her unless they had an ulterior motive. That's such a shame. I could spend all night talking to her, just like I could spend hours buried deep inside of her.

Various

#11. Elphaba gave him a sidelong glance. "I think you enjoy going to school, Nick. Are you sure canoodling with teenage girls isn't your ulterior motive?"
"Perish the thought, Elphaba, perish the thought. I'm too old for that." Nick winked. "By about eight hundred years.

Abramelin Keldor

#12. Mayor Walmsley is using the typical Jim Crow manipulation tactics to deflect the blame and guilt. He's a classic racist politician with an ulterior motive," says Ora.

Shaune Bordere

#13. Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity.

Chris Matakas

#14. Sometimes the stupidest promises are the ones we make to ourselves. But

Addison Moore

#15. Everyone has an ulterior motive. Everyone wants something, and everyone is willing to do whatever they have
to in order to get it. Regardless of who winds up hurt in the process.

Kyra Dune

#16. Never trust a species that grins all the time. It's up to something.

Terry Pratchett

#17. It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

Josh Radnor

#18. Always look on the bright side. And if there is no bright side?
Look away.

Joanne M. Harris

#19. I never hated any of my ex-fiances enough to return the rings.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#20. As a face and a heel, Savage saw wrestling the way so many of us viewers did. He saw that every wrestler had an ulterior motive, that everyone was out for himself - that conspiracy theory was the only reasonable lens through which to perceive WWF reality.

David Shoemaker

#21. Some people are gift givers by nature. They love their tribe, or they respect their art, and so they give. Not for an ulterior motive, but because it gives them joy.

Seth Godin

#22. To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.

Mark Twain

#23. The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

Paul Valery

#24. There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently.

Melissa Joan Hart

#25. Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

Gabrielle Union

#26. I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

Deborah Turbeville

#27. The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs.

Roy Horn

#28. Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

Frederick Lenz