A Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
American - Author
February 22, 1820 - January 18, 1904

We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.

Eknath Easwaran

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Eugene Ionesco

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

P. T. Barnum

The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity. Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence. Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

Deepak Chopra

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm sorry you leftists, you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

Andrew Breitbart

I'm sorry, you leftists: you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

Andrew Breitbart

It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

Benjamin Franklin

It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.

Billy Graham

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

Angelique Kidjo

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

P. J. O'Rourke

The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be.

Frederick Lenz

The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

Jim Rohn

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Eric Hoffer

I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.