Motive Quotes · Page 6

“sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue.”)”

— Jimmy Swaggart

My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?

— Cameron Bright

Assumptions can be a hurtful thing. No one knows the motive in someones heart.

— The Joker

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

— Eugen Kogon

By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive.

— David Luiz

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

— Jodi Picoult

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

— Mother Teresa

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.

— Ben Brantley

I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.

— Kendra Wilkinson

And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's…

— Chris Matthews

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty…

— William Shenstone

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else…

— Epictetus

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the…

— John Barth

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

— Hugh Blair

“The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision…

— Daniel Kahneman

I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about…

— Rob Lowe

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…

— Arthur Koestler

I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you…

— Nikola Tesla

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with…

— Henry Ford

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women…

— Ayelet Waldman

The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again,…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the…

— Will Durant

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its…

— Eric Maisel

We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested.…

— Anonymous

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be…

— Carl Sandburg

Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we…

— Allen W. Wood

In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives…

— Wendell Berry

Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is…

— Martin Buber

The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love…

— Thaddeus Golas

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Margaret Preston

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

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Herman Melville

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

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

— Farrah Naseem

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

— Anonymous