Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.”

— Aristotle

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

“the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is…

— Michael J. Sandel

“INTENT reveals desire; ACTION reveals commitment.”

— Steve Maraboli

“It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.”

— Ilyas Kassam

The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and…

— Sarah Fielding

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

— Margaret Preston

“an action is good when it promotes interests, material or spiritual, as intended by the actor in his motive; and it is bad when…

— Kaiten Nukariya

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Your motive influences your motion.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

In the motive lies the good or ill.

— Samuel Johnson