Giving Quote by Cassandra Clare

I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other…

— Elaine Dundy

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

— Graham Greene

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

— H. P. Lovecraft

Motives come in many forms and change throughout our lives.

— Varsha Sharma

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part.

— Stephen C. Meyer

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

— Victor Hugo

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

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

— Anonymous

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.

— Anonymous

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

— Henry Spencer