Excess Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive.

— David Luiz

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.

— Gustave Le Bon

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

“The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the…

— H.L. Mencken

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

— Jack Vance

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

— Ayn Rand

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

— Anonymous