Motive Quotes

Motivation is motive in action.

— Denis Waitley

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Effort plus motive equals result.

— P.D. Ouspensky

In the motive lies the good or ill.

— Samuel Johnson

The key to motivation is motive.

— Stephen Covey

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

— Albert Einstein

Profit per se is not my motive.

— Chris Hughes

Everything is possible, if you can

— Syed Mustafa Faraz Ahmad

“Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.”

— Farrah Naseem

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

— Anonymous

Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

— Margaret Preston

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

— Herman Melville

“Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.”

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,

— Janet Malcolm

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

— John Locke

If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other…

— Hudson Taylor

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

— George Henry Lewes

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

— Richard Branson

“Multi oameni, cand incearca sa justifice de ce au sau nu au o anumita credinta, deseori au multe opinii in loc de…

— Ken Ham

The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that…

— Smith Wigglesworth

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

— Philip Yancey

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

— Ray Bradbury

Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent…

— Carolyn Porco

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than…

— Albert Einstein

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

“To encapsulate the prosecution’s theory concerning motive, a central element in the case, he offered a quote from William Congreve that he…

— Paul Alexander

Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive…

— Tony Curtis

In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at…

— Thorstein Veblen

It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before…

— Billy Graham

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people…

— J. G. Ballard

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent…

— Samuel Johnson

“We are drawn towards a thing, either because there is some good we are seeking from it, or because we cannot do…

— Simone Weil

Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of…

— James Madison

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the…

— Edward Gibbon

The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst…

— William Sloane Coffin

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any…

— Anonymous

It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice…

— Dharma Mittra

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine…

— Calvin Coolidge

The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and…

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune