Motive Quotes - Page 2

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.

The noblest motive is the public good.

The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part.

A wrong motive involves defeat.

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

Never mistake motive for action.