Top 26 Ulterior Motive Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Your love for me is transparent, no hidden agenda, no ulterior motive.
Euginia Herlihy
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
Franz Kafka
#18. Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.
Sylvia Plath
#19. Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.
Larry King
#20. Never trust a species that grins all the time. It's up to something.
Terry Pratchett
#22. The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
Paul Valery
#23. To win a negotiation you have to show you're willing to walk away. And the best way to show you're willing to walk away is to walk away.
Michael Weston
#24. Instruct efficiently.
Instruct effectively.
Instruct exceptionally.
Instruct excellently.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.
Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
#26. 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
