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• To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Self, Speech, Flawless

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1993). “The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice”, p.143, Lotus Press

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• Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fire, Keys, May

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• Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.

  John Henry Newman

  Teacher, Order, Errors

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• One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Motivation, Feelings, Essentials

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Literature & Existentialism”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  People, Abuse, Charmed

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• One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

  Emile Chartier

  Inspirational, Self Respect, World

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• Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Motivation, Littles, Preoccupation

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• All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Fancy, Courses, Impediments

  William Shakespeare (2001). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Humanity, Reason Why, No Reason

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Spring, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Political, Historical

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• Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Victory, Would Be, Ease

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.158, Baen Books

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Purity

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• 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

  Way, Accurate, Presentation

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• The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may or may not be accurate and may or may not have underlying motives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Doe, May

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• White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Frustration, White, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I wasn't acting from the motives people usually work from: to feel good, to have fun, to make something last.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Fun, Book, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, People, Broken

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• A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Spring, Selfish

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at San Diego Exposition in San Diego, California, October 2, 1935.

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• One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.

  Roy Blunt

  Challenges, Next, Faces

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• Beautiful words are ugly motives best friends.

  Steve Fowler

  Beautiful, Ugly, Beautiful Words

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• Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the precious fountain of hope. As we extend our hands and hearts toward others in Christlike love, something wonderful happens to us. Our own spirits become healed, more refined, and stronger. We become happier, more peaceful, and more receptive to the whisperings of the Holy Spirit.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spring, Heart, Healing

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• 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

  Father, Son, Self

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.70, Criss Jami

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• Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.

  Criss Jami

  Stress, Air, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.92, Criss Jami

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• A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Character, Heart, Soul

  Mary Baker Eddy (1967). “The Christian Science Journal”

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