Quotes About Motives

Reasons are whores.

My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that?

I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that? Effie's

Just as inequality is necessary for creation itself, so the struggle to limit it is also necessary. If there were no struggle to become free and get back to God, there would be no creation either. It is the difference between these two forces that determines the nature of the motives of men. There will always be these motives to work, some tending towards bondage and others towards freedom. This

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

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.

...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...

Some of the worst things are done with the best intentions, Petra, " August said. "You shouldn't have done this to me.

Every move, every act, and every thought of every human being is influenced by one or more of the nine basic motives.

The motive of self-preservation The motive of financial gain The motive of love The motive of sexuality The motive of desire for power and fame The motive of fear The motive of revenge The motive of freedom (of body and mind) The motive of desire to create or build in thought or in material

Buyers generally make purchases because of some motive closely associated to their emotions.

induce other people to act upon motives without resistance or friction.