Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.
Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
Acting is a mysterious process.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.