Quotes About Motives

We rarely do anything with on single motive.

People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people's actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.

She was doing what she was doing, not because her actions were helping her daughter—they weren't—but because she felt too uncomfortable doing nothing. Naomi accepted the fact that everything she did was based on selfish motives. She became willing to allow her daughter to take the consequences of her own behavior and thereby perhaps learn what she needed to learn.

This is, in fact, the subject of his House of Fame, a poem of his midcareer written, among other motives, to twit his illustrious predecessor Dante as a fame-seeking windbag.

There is little need of mixing motives; human motives are always mixed, and what matters is what God makes of what the individual does, rather than the motives which lead one to do it.

Solo leemos verdaderamente a fondo lo que leemos por motivos personales. Puede ser que busquemos conseguir algún poder. Puede ser, simplemente, que odiemos al autor.

The road to hell is always paved with good intentions.

Ida was clearly exasperated by the fact that despite the motives that accompanied the lynching statistics published year after year—which Ida included in nearly every article—"law-abiding and fair-minded people should so persistently shut their eyes to the facts." Ida continued, "This record, easily within the reach of every one who wants it," made it "inexcusable" for anyone not to debunk the presumption from the beginning.

Help her, since she is unhappy, And a woman; two good motives

Facino's vision of vast riches and the novelist's vision of the motives of human behavior are both attuned to the hidden, the dramatic, that, like Freud's analyses, suggest an erotic charge that animates the world. They may speak also of a power beyond what is permitted to humankind

material motivations for murder (in fact, I contend that they were secondary to ideological motives).

It did not then cross my mind that they, like religious apologists, might have any personal reasons for holding to this disbelief. It certainly did not cross my mind that I had any low motives for it. Unlike Christians, atheists have a high opinion of their own virtue.

I must confess that we British Liaison Officers were slow to understand their point of view; as a nation we have always tended to assume that those who do not whole-heartedly support us in our wars have some sinister motive for not wishing to see the world a better place. This attitude made us particularly unsympathetic towards the Balli Kombëtar, although the latter was a thoroughly patriotic organization. The Balli

Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”

Surely you realize that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you and to track your movements and all that you are doing.”

All a manís ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of menís hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

What then is the issue? Just this: that in every way, whether by false motives or true, Christ is preached. And in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.

And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.