Action Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

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 sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

— Michael Reeves

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

— Brandon Sanderson

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

— Thomas Hobbes

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

— Anonymous

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

— Kenneth Waltz

Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we…

— Edward S. Jordan

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

— James McCosh

“Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.”

— David Hume

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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