Quotes of Motive - somelinesforyou

“ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. ”

- John Locke

“ Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. ”

- George Eliot

“ We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ”

- Lord Byron

“ We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. ”

- George Eliot

“ The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ”

- Jane Smiley

“ A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ”

- J. P. Morgan

“ Robbery was obviously the motive. ”

- Stan Smith

“ I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute. ”

- Zoe Lofgren

“ We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life? ”

- Jane Elliott

“ People worship Me with different motives. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Work done with selfish motives is inferior by far to the selfless service or Karma-yoga. Therefore be a Karma-yogi, O Arjuna. Those who seek. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one. ”

- Unknown

“ If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ 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

“ Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. ”

- Unknown

“ Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ 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 is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. ”

- Katharine Whitehorn

“ To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. ”

- Henry James

“ He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ”

- Sir James M. Barrie

“ We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us. ”

- Marie de Sevigne

“ From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one — to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF. ”

- Mark Twain
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