Best 132 quotes in «motive quotes» category

Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.

Some lessons you learn gradually and some you learn in a sudden moment, like a flash going off in a dark room. I sift and rake and dig around in my vivid recollections of young Sean on the floor in summer, and I try to see what makes him tick, but I know a secret about young Sean, I guess, that he kind of ends up telling the world: nothing makes him tick. It just happens all by itself, tick tick tick tick tick, without any proximal cause, with nothing underneath it. He is like a jellyfish adrift in the sea, throbbing quietly in the warm waves of the surf just off the highway where the dusty white vans with smoked windows and indistinct decals near their wheel hubs roll innocently past.

The longing for company may be no less powerful or irresponsible in its effects than the sexual motive once was.

Sometimes people forget the bridge that connected them to success.

The more the world commits to programs for poverty and education, the greater the gap for those with intellectual disabilities. That’s because money goes where results are quick and quantifiable, which is not likely for people with intellectual disabilities.

The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.

The motive of man is a mystery.

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over time - and to sustain you through it - your motivation must become an inner energy; a 'motor' driving you forward, passionately, purposefully, wisely and compassionately... come what may, every day. Inspiration is an outer - worldly - energy that you breathe and draw in. It may come from many places, faces, spaces and stages - right across the ages. It is where nature, spirit, science, mind and time meet, dance, play and speak. It keeps you outward facing and life embracing. But you must be open-minded and open-hearted to first let it in and then let it out again. Together - blended, combined and re-entwined - motivation and inspiration bring connectivity, productivity, creativity and boundless possibilities that is not just 'self' serving but enriching to all humanity and societies...just as it should be.

There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

The right reason will reap the desired result,

We could scrub the floor for a tired friend, or dress a wound for a patient in a hospital, or lay the table and wash up for the family; but we shall not do it in martyr spirit or with that worse spirit of self-congratulation, of feeling that we are making ourselves more perfect, more unselfish, more positively kind. We shall do it just for one thing, that our hands make Christ's hands in our life, that our service may let Christ serve through us, that our patience may bring Christ's patience back to the world.

We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.

You cannot see a person’s heart, belief or motive unless it identifies itself with an action.

What is a goal without a purpose?

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

Your heart influences your art.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Effort plus motive equals result.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives and motivation and stuff. He really knows the craft.

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.

Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

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

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

I'm sorry you leftists, you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.