Action Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men

— Jean De La Bruyere

Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more…

— George Washington

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

Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

— Michael Reeves

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is…

— Sophocles

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested…

— Anonymous

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

— Archibald Alexander

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

— James McCosh

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

— Vikas Swarup

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

— H. P. Lovecraft