Quotes About Motives

The search for comfort at the expense of truth has never been a motive for religious belief, since all creeds are chock-full of terrible proposals, which are no more comfort to anyone and which the faithful believe despite the pain it causes them, for fear of leaving some dark corner of reality unacknowledged.

was reminded of a story about the contentious talks during the nineteenth-century Congress of Vienna. After the Austrian diplomat Metternich was awakened with news that an ambassador he had been sparring with had died in the night, Metternich reportedly asked, "What can have been his motive?

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance.

It is unworthy of a man of spirit to be sollicitous to keep himself within the boundaries of human laws, on no other motive than to avoid the temporal inconveniencies attending the breach of them. The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Was she not so simple and free of ulterior motives as she looked? Well, neither was I.

With a little luck, you discover that the people in your life, permanently placed, are able to follow your innermost, deeply concealed motives.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Often we judge ourselves by our intentions and everyone else by their actions. It is possible to intend one thing while communicating something totally different. Sometimes our true motives are cleverly hidden even from us.

people judge people as less moral when they act altruistically and gain in the process than when they gain from clearly nonaltruistic behavior.

people view "tainted altruism" as worse than no altruism at all.

Neither will it out of my mind but that that man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world; for so surely as Judas designed the world in becoming religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his Master for the same.

Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Unless one is willing to believe that the Putin regime acted out of purely altruistic motives in exfiltrating this American intelligence worker to Moscow, the only plausible explanation for its actions in Hong Kong was that it recognized Snowden's potential as an espionage source.

Angel-character solves problems and matters; whereas, evil-minded gains ugly purposes and motives. It displays an authentic context and concept.

As nature each one born equal, the world divides that into the classes for its motives. It is not a mistake; one born and die rich or poor. It is one's fate since the world runs with it.

Each one consciously or unconsciously; however, tries to use and benefit from others, for its interests, whether in a friendly way or trickery route of tricks.

Firstly, a suitable, secondly, trustworthy, and honest messenger, stays away from personal motives for the concrete outcome; otherwise, conspiracy prevails.

Mask on the face wins the motives; whereas, loses the character and trust.

Never cross the limits of any matter, you will harm, not only yourself, but you will also lose your motives and trust.

One cannot impose its nationalism and ethnicity, except a legal dispute, on the ground of language, creed, caste, race, and colour upon a major host of it, who provided shelter and refuge as the human rights context. Indeed, it pictures the grave dishonesty, misrepresentation, even traitorous motives.

The sympathy based on motives, indeed, leaves its point of the identity mark, in that the doubts take place as a natural process and lead to any determination. Such sympathy meets regret. The wise people keep them away from that.