True Motives Quotes

#1. When we all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, we will have our true motives revealed.

Billy Graham

#2. Regardless of a patient's true motives to get out of bed, I always applaud on the inside. That's what physical therapy is all about. To get them out of bed. To coax them down to the rehab gym.

Adele Levine

#3. Growing up means learning to dig beneath surface behavior and discern the true motives of others, and to respond to intent, not behavior.

Ramon Stevens

#4. She was proud one moment, covetous the next, and then fearful the moment after that. It would always be like this, wouldn't it, being the wife of a man she loved but couldn't trust, whose true motives were as murky as the bottom of the sea?

Sherry Thomas

#5. Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

Criss Jami

#6. By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive.

David Luiz

#7. 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

#8. What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.

Leonard Cohen

#9. No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations; and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of the body politic to one end.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#10. If he held me in true regard he would not believe such insinuations in my disfavour. A worthy lover should assume one has unanswerable motives for all one does!" "Certainly -

Whit Stillman

#11. Rampton suggested that one could derive a "fair picture of a man's true attitudes and motives from what he says and from the kind of people he associates with and speaks to.

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#12. What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?

Liz Phair

#13. There are no honest poems about dead women.

Audre Lorde

#14. I love Marilyn Monroe. I think she was the coolest blonde. I think like me she just didn't care what anyone thinks. She's happy. She's smiling. I don't know, I just always thought she was so beautiful and she just seemed, like, magical.

Paris Hilton

#15. I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop ...

Bill Cosby

#16. Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Hosea Ballou

#17. [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

#18. From whichsoever of these motives it might be, true it is, that many of them came over to our religion, and were initiated into it by baptism.

Thomas More

#19. A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

Eugene O'Neill

#20. Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.

John Knowles

#21. No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.

Michael D. O'Brien

#22. They also carried knobbly sticks, used for hitting each other while the teachers weren't looking. This was supposed to be good training for later life.

J.K. Rowling

#23. Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

C.S. Lewis

#24. The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life is this so common as in war, where the facts are seldom fully known and the underlying motives even less so.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#25. Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something.

Henry Cloud

#26. History is not history unless it is the truth.

Abraham Lincoln

#27. Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heav'n securely.

Henry Van Dyke

#28. Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing dresses, to go to big ceremonies.

Paz Vega

#29. My goodness, if you think of all the folks in the world who'd give all they've got to be out of the racket and in a place like this, only they can't get out! Are we in the prison or are they?

James Hilton

#30. True repentance relinquishes self-centeredness and selfish motives. True repentance leads us to want to be Spirit-led and to live solely for the glory of God, no matter the consequences.

Susan Brackley

#31. There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

Abbas Kiarostami

#32. I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that.

Kim Gordon