Motivation Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

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

There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.

— Carmen Yulin Cruz

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

— John Hawkes

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

— Roy Peter Clark

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking…

— Carrie Fisher

Motivation is motive in action.

— Denis Waitley

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the…

— Thomas Reid

Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

— Margaret Preston

The key to motivation is motive.

— Stephen Covey

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

Is there another word for synonym?

— George Carlin

The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.

— Joseph Butler