Motive Quotes

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.

The motive power of democracy is love

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

The motive force of history is truth and not lies.

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

Man sees your actions, but God your motives.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere then at least it wasn't because I tried to be something I'm not.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

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.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

The motive of success is not enough.

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.