Motive Quotes - Page 4

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive and a reason, most of the time, to accomplish all the things that we want in life.

The motive power is the cause of all life.

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.

Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

Almost all education has a political motive.

Motives are causes experienced from within.

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.

Beautiful words are ugly motives best friends.

The key to motivation is motive.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

If Trump does not start seeing things through an ideological prism, he will never understand the method, the motive, and the how and why these attacks against him happen. He doesn't see liberalism, and because he doesn't see liberalism, he can be outfoxed by it every day. He's not an ideological person.

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

We rarely do anything with on single motive.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.