Best 55 quotes in «motives quotes» category

all life's some kind of fucked up circus. we're always tricked into doing stuff... for love, or money, or family, country, religion, maybe "fun" and validation… Friends? and I decided that the less I do, the better I'm doing. Why? Because if you think hard enough, you can probably figure out that all those are some kind of bullshit. But I try not to think too much either anymore.

All of the best motives boiled down to a single, driving emotion.

An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

Doing the right thing with the wrong motives is deplorable.

Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself -- consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good -- that is the task of education. Education concerns itself with the motives for effective action. For no action is ever carried out in the absence of motives capable of supplying the indispensable amount of energy for its execution.

Along with our over-giving is our own conditional giving pattern, which can fuel so much of our resentment and feelings of “victimization” by the people to whom we are giving. We may be completely unaware of our expectations of those we assist, and our own anger and resentment may catch us off guard. This is why our martyrdom is so hard on those around us. They are aware of the price we are exacting, even when we are in denial about our own motives and expectations.

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully. (1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character. (2) You post threats to someone. (3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts. (4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention. Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.

Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or or in our friends...

God knows the motive of every man.

Do not feed your motives, just feed the bears.

Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.

I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing?" "Motive - Don't know." "What do you mean Don't know? I tell you I hadn't got one. Put None." "You must have one. If you kill people without one, you're mad.

Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.

I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people-the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime. I am sorry I could not see my father.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

In every bad situation we have to see Satan’s motives behind a person’s actions

It does that to you, being a detective. You look at blank space and see gears turning, motives and cunning; nothing looks innocent any more. Most times when you prove away the gears, the blank space looks lovely, peaceful. But that arm: innocent, it looked just as dangerous.

I used to think mothers-in-law are difficult the world over, but on that day I came to understand that they're simply unknowable.

If financial gain remains our main motive then we can be certain that rich fathers will leave behind poor sons!

I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.

It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.

Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

Our motives are useless if we don’t start acting it out

No amount of therapy, dream analysis, word association, experiment or brain-scanning can recover a person’s ‘true motives’, not because they are difficult to find, but because there is nothing to find. It is not hard to plumb our mental depths because they are so deep and so murky, but because there are no mental depths to plumb.

...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...

Passion for knowledge, motivation for continuous learning.

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status and wealth, petty annoyances can spark disproportionately violent behaviour. We become frustrated because we feel powerless, invisible, unheard. We crave celebrity, but that’s not easy to come by, so we settle for notoriety. Envy and bitterness drive a new breed of lawbreakers, replacing the old motives of poverty and the need for escape. But how do you solve crimes which no longer have traditional motives?

People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning of Chicago or a Presidential election in our day.

The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy.

The deeds and motive of man define his personality.

The Lord weighs the motive of every heart.

The Maker knows the motives of men's hearts.

Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality

That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

The fancy car and the house are symptoms of a deeper goal. I'm not here to reshape your morality or tell you what you should value, simply to ask "why?" Financial security and providing for your family are valid motivations behind your life choices. Or maybe you just love cars and houses. Whatever your reasons, however, understand that your decisions are rooted in deeper values, whether or not you are aware of them. The more clearly you understand those values, the more capable you will become of leveraging your efforts in an optimal way. My challenge to you is to dig deeper, and always to ask "why?

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires.

The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in a contradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims, since he denies it by his actions.

There is a rationale for every action.

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.

To do good is a divine grace.

Very often, people embarking on such guesswork make the vulgar assumption that the lower the motives, the more likely they are to be authentic.

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.

...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...

When the minds of men slip from realities to fantasies without thinking of the future consequences, then we must ponder. When the hearts of men are entangled with what though might seem great but yet, specious ambitions without pondering over the resulting footprints, then we ought to take precautions. When the hands of men unwittingly and for the sake of self-gratification find the right weapons and dexterity for the wrong purpose, then massacre and cruelties leave indelible footprints of sorrow and bitterness in the hearts of men. We shall always look back to the footprints of yesterday to say had we know if we don’t take a critical look at today’s footsteps. There is always an alternative that is better than good

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

You can't be stop. Reach out for your dreams.