Quotes About Motive

The motive power is the cause of all life.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

Religion, too, he warned, especially when "kindled into enthusiasm," is a "force like that of other passions" and "may become a motive to oppression.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

From my experience it is always well never to pay attention to what people say, but rather why they say it.

There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

No one can be any better than his source of motivation. The entire secret of life boils down to this—our energy comes from who or what turns us on—good, or evil.

Who becomes Character. What becomes Action. (What happened.) Where becomes Setting. When becomes Chronology. Why becomes Cause or Motive. How becomes Process. (How it happened.)

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden".

Let no act be done without a purpose

You have no assurance that they are doing wrong at all, for the motives of man's actions are not always what they seem. There is generally much to learn before any judgement can be pronounced with certainty on another's doings.

It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that fear is a more powerful political motive in our society than compassion.

At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone.

A man always has two reasons for the things he does—a good one and the real one.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

If it were true, then Kristian had a far deeper and more urgent motive for killing Elissa than any of them had realized before.

And I can't let you out of here until I know what your plans are. (Kat) To stop the annihilation of mankind and the earth. It's a simple plan, really, but an important one. Can I go now? (Sin)

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

When you can't see the reason for something, look for the possible result—and ask yourself who might benefit from it.

I'm a killer, not a thief.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

He must needs go whom the devil doth drive.