Quotes About Motives

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it [on Goodreads]." - Bertrand Russell

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." - Bertrand Russell

acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. (1 Chron. 28:9)

Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

It would be silly not to admit that there are some sections of the public who are unconvinced by the benefits or have doubts about the motives behind it. We have to be clear that GM is not all about profits for multinational companies.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

It is a bad idea to say that discrimination is wrong only because the traits of all people are indistinguishable. It is a bad idea to say that violence and exploitation are wrong only because people are not naturally inclined to them. It is a bad idea to say that people are responsible for their actions only because the causes of those actions are mysterious. It is a bad idea to say that our motives are meaningful in a personal sense only because they are inexplicable in a biological sense.

Había aprendido a no confiar demasiado en las afirmaciones de los demás, sobre todo si sus palabras les reportaban algún beneficio.

I didn't know for sure whether Miss Sarah's feelings came from love or guilt. I didn't know whether mine came from love or a need to be safe. She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Perhaps understanding was more important than Love, and perhaps the highest form of understanding was the understanding of oneself, one's motives and desires and capabilities. Constance thought about this but the idea didn't appeal to her much. She dismissed it.

Que quede bien claro: el alma, como le dicen, es, pareciera, no cristalina sino pantanosa. Los motivos que la inducen, en esta cuadra, a dejarse llevar, como los llaman, al juego y a la exaltación, en la siguiente, con la misma arbitrariedad, y en forma no menos imprevisible, la sumen, para usar una vez más la expresión, en una intensa melancolía. En todo caso pareciera, ¿no?

One school of ancient philosophers, the Stoics, developed a distinctive view of Medea as part of their ethics and psychology. They think that the idea that there are really two distinct forces or motives at work in Medea is an illusion. What matters in this situation is always Medea herself, the person, and it is wrong to think in terms of different parts of her.

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

I think every human being has good intentions in one aspect of life and some in every.

Donors do not reward good intentions.

The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.

You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.

I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

I don't think it's good to interact with people with a certain agenda in mind.

The U.S. government's need for an enemy, its search for new enemies is really a way of uniting the country, covering its real motives and appealing for patriotism that is called the last refuge of the scoundrel. Patriotism is not the real motive. The real motive is domination and exploitation, and to get away with it you have to have a rallying ground, an enemy. That is where the military comes in.16

In my experience, men or women who kill out of "hopeless love" suffer from low self-esteem and all that malarkey.

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes—bare egotism and false philanthropy.