Top 41 Quotes About Pure Motives

#1. 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

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#2. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

David Livingstone

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#3. I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.

Margaret Atwood

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#4. Do you feel ready for the final test next week.

Candace Knoebel

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#5. I tore the crusts off my grilled cheese sandwich and set them aside to throw out for the birds. Their motives were pure
hunger, thirst, shelter
and they didn't mind leftovers.

Laura Wiess

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#6. There seems to be a kind of order in the universe ... in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

Katherine Anne Porter

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#7. USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.

Pseudonymous Bosch

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#8. Tests of love always end badly.

Melanie Thernstrom

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#9. Hope is not gone. YOU are hope. And so is everybody else

Amelia Kahaney

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#10. There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

James Madison

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#11. If it had come to a fight, Patrick [Vieira] could probably have killed me.

Roy Keane

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#12. Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

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#13. The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

Terry Pratchett

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#14. We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.

Eknath Easwaran

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#15. Nothing shocks me anymore ... except pure intentions.

Donna Lynn Hope

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#16. The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#17. None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives.
Are self deceivers, but the worst of all
Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy'
And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

Louis MacNeice

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#18. Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied.

Frederick Lenz

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#19. People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Eugene Ionesco

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#20. Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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#21. Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.

Grant Von Harrison

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#22. Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#23. If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

Timothy Keller

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#24. No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times
in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Michel De Montaigne

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#25. Ties are straightened and expressions banished.

Rana Dasgupta

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#26. The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

Jane Porter

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#27. Proverbs 16 To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue. All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord. Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans ...

Bible. New International Version

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#28. Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

George Washington

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#29. Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

John Donne

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#30. If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.

Frederick Lenz

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#31. But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

C.J. Sansom

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#32. All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

Ulysses S. Grant

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#33. The dogs were partly responsible for keeping her sane. The relationship she had with them was pure joy. No ulterior motives, no spite, just love and care and kindness, exactly the emotions she wanted to cultivate.

J. Courtney Sullivan

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#34. [Parker J.] Palmer points out that knowledge today is driven by two motives, curiosity and control. Curiosity gives us pure science, and control gives us technology. Then he asserts that there is a third component that is regularly disregarded but essential to true knowledge--compassion, or love.

Albert Greene

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#35. Humble me so I do what is right. Break me so I cling to You. Expose me so my motives stay pure.

Alisa Hope Wagner

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#36. Happiness is a big joke; let us laugh at it loud.

Santosh Kalwar

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#37. The alternative to the myth of pure evil is that most of the harm that people visit on one another comes from motives that are found in every normal person.

Steven Pinker

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#38. The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

Peter Bart

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#39. God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Bede Griffiths

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#40. You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

Ayn Rand

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#41. The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.

Thomas Mann

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