Motives Quotes

You are the sum of your action and your motives

— El Haji Nero

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

— Samuel Johnson

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

— Herman Melville

Motives are causes experienced from within.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Wicked is wrong motives.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Man sees your actions, but God your motives.

— Thomas a Kempis

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“The Maker knows the motives of men's hearts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.

— Gustave Le Bon

“...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...”

— John Geddes

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

— Mason Cooley

“Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.”

— Bryant McGill

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

— Anonymous

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Common people have wishes but extra ordinary people have motives

— Jawahar Lal Nehru

“People have motives, what they are, is what you need to notice.”

— S.D. Walker

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of…

— James Madison

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the…

— John Sununu

“Motives are not only the fine china of plausible desires and honest hurt. They are also the steel and high explosives of…

— David A. Powlison

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

— Alexander Hamilton

“And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of…

— Tony Burgess

“People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.” Within”

— Kevin Nichols

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers…

— Daniel Boone

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been…

— Adan Canto

There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that…

— Alexander Hamilton

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be…

— Philip Zimbardo

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew…

— Bob Ehrlich

Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is…

— Charles Caleb Colton

For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular…

— Sophie Hannah

I'm a person who really likes to understand motives - the inner motives and the inner personalities of persons. Why do people…

— Dror Moreh

“In giving that as may be constructive in the experience of the entity at this time, who is to say as to…

— Edgar Cayce

“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status…

— Christopher Fowler

In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led…

— Albert Einstein

Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which…

— Clarence Darrow

“Every second of every day, a man is the sum effect of every second that has touched him before; he routinely encounters…

— John Pipkin

“The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity…

— H.L. Mencken

“If you make a choice in this conference and you stick to it to be an excellent person in everything you do…

— Joyce Meyer

“Looking back through the last page or two, I see that I have made it appear as though my motives in writing…

— George Orwell