Motive Quotes - Page 3

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Profit per se is not my motive.

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

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

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

I'm his locomotive and he's my shield.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.