Quotes About Ulterior Motives

#1. When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

Albert Camus

#2. It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.

Michael K. Powell

#3. Zay shrugged one shoulder. "I wouldn't say it was entirely innocent. All that warm, wet water touching us everywhere. And the soap definitely had ulterior motives."
I wrapped the towel around me, tucking it tight at the top. "That career in comedy? Walk away now, Jones.

Devon Monk

#4. I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.

Greg Graffin

#5. It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Franz Kafka

#7. I'm sorry, Grady. You weren't the only one who went into this with ulterior motives

Abigail Roux

#8. 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

#9. My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Omar Bongo

#10. Was she not so simple and free of ulterior motives as she looked? Well, neither was I.

Saul Bellow

#11. Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

Charles R. Swindoll

#12. If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of people who are in this industry don't have a lot of friends - but have a lot of acquaintances - because you never know what everyone's ulterior motives are.

Donald Faison

#13. 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

#14. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

Mother Teresa

#15. My Quotes are about who I truly am, as a person, a professional and a human being. I have no time for regression, for vindictiveness, or ulterior motives. Those things are for the insecure.

Emma Paul

#16. To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

Joshua L. Goldberg

#17. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Teresa

#18. Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.

John Fairclough

#19. Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Stieg Larsson

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

Paul Valery

#21. If you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

Twyla Tharp

#22. I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

Ann Romney

#23. I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.

Randy Jackson

#24. My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.

Susan Wiggs

#25. why should i live my life by someone else's words

T.R.F. Sedgwick

#26. If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

Laozi

#27. We are the sum total of what we have done and where we have been, and I sincerely believe that in many ways the world in which I grew up was better than the one in which we live today.

James Lee Burke

#28. Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.

Mardy Grothe

#29. Atheists does not believe in God. God also does not believe in Atheists

David Asscherick