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  • Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives. -- Steig Larsson
  • If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. -- Mother Teresa
  • If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. -- Mother Teresa
  • The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. -- Paul Valery
  • if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives. -- Twyla Tharp
  • The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. -- Franz Kafka
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Your love for me is transparent, no hidden agenda, no ulterior motive. -- Euginia Herlihy
  • 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
  • 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. -- Rob Lowe
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