Action Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

— H. P. Lovecraft

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Graham Greene

So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.

— Stephen Mitchell

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of…

— George Eliot

Human action is purposeful behavior.

— Ludwig von Mises

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

— Miguel de Unamuno