Circumstances Quote by Thomas Reid

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

Motives come in many forms and change throughout our lives.

— Varsha Sharma

Motives are causes experienced from within.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent to a…

— Carolyn Porco

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

— John Hawkes

Motivation is motive in action.

— Denis Waitley

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

The key to motivation is motive.

— Stephen Covey

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

— H. P. Lovecraft