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  • We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

    People   Age   Motive  
    Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
  • Who benefits from Wi-Fi? We all benefit from Wi-Fi. Is there an industry here? Of course, there is an industry, as well. The point is public health needs protecting. I don't think you should have to prove that there is some profiteer who might have an ulterior motive in order to protect public health.

    Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
  • I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.

    "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.
  • 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.

    Jobs   Kindness   Play  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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 (2004). “Improving Your Serve”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • 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.

    Needs   Way   Helping  
  • In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

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

    People   May   Be Kind  
  • 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.

    Way   Motive   Accurate  
  • 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. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.

    Self   Goal   Effort  
    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2013). “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, p.42, Random House
  • 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.

    "Q&A – Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.
  • If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

  • 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 (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.286, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrarily at all but to completely change how that plays out based upon the needs of profitability. So it's totally unreliable and it has many layers nested underneath that of many ulterior motives nested underneath it.

    Play   World   Layers  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

    Art   Would Be   Use  
    "Lucian Freud Paintings". Book by Robert Hughes, 1982.
  • Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

    People   Boards   World  
  • When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

    Mean   Evil   Trying  
  • 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.

    Strong   Smart   Believe  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

    Trust   Pyramids   Smirk  
    "Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 171), January 2008.
  • 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.

    Men   Careers   Sometimes  
  • If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

  • 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.

    Interview with Paul Eide, me.askmen.com. February 27, 2016.
  • A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

    Stupid   Eye   Views  
  • 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.

    Children   Thinking   Men  
  • 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.

    Sake   Action   Motive  
    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”
  • If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

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

    Evil   Whiplash   Motive  
    Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”
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