Concern Quote by Anonymous

When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.

— Thucydides

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Intentions and motives should be given more importance than outcome.

— Senoraroy

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely…

— Anonymous

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

— John Hawkes

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

— Victor Hugo

Motives are causes experienced from within.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing…

— Albert Camus

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

— Edmund Burke

Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.

— Matthieu Ricard

In the motive lies the good or ill.

— Samuel Johnson