Motive Quotes - Page 5

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

I rarely find motive in bird vomit.

Life always take on the character of its motive.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

Motivation is motive in action.

You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.