Bottom Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

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

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's…

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

Often we judge ourselves by our intentions and everyone else by their actions.

— John Bevere

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

People will always interprete our actions base on the kind of relationship or connection we share with them. Hardly do these interpretations match the…

— Terry Mark

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

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

— Samuel Johnson

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

— Adam Yauch

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