<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Motives - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43262]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43258]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43260]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/248</guid></item></channel></rss>