Quotes About Motive

So the goal of spiritual leadership is to muster people to join God in living for God's glory.

There's a reason for killing everyone, if you know them well enough.

The dignified parts of Government are those which bring it force—which attract its motive power. The efficient parts only employ that power. The comely parts of a Government HAVE need, for they are those upon which its vital strength depends. They may not do anything definite that a simpler polity would not do better; but they are the preliminaries, the needful prerequisites of ALL work. They raise the army, though they do not win the battle.

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.

Liberty acting without motive is no more liberty, it is chance, and chance is another name for ignorance.

Anything I do, I'm doing it for a reason.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

Actors make choices for different reasons.

When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons  attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. B

has not been wasted, since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, this is too serious for dawdling, especially as

At the level of ego-psychology', wrote Mowrer in his survey on 'Motivation' in the Annual Review for 1952, 'there may be said to be only one master motive: anxiety.

God, who in the beginning was the creator, appears in the end as revenger and rewarder. Deference to such a God admittedly can produce virtuous actions; however, because fear of punishment or hope for reward are their motive, these actions will not be purely moral; on the contrary, the inner essence of such virtue will amount to prudent and carefully calculating egoism.

Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Do not consider Collectivists as sincere but deluded idealists. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not idealistic, no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

His motive in the relationship seemed to resemble the need of an anemic person who receives a kind of living transfusion from the mere sight of a savagely overabundant vitality.

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

The things I do are known to the world, but why I do them is my secret alone.

Everything has reasons, even if they're not good ones. And the reasons have reasons.

That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive.

Does the mind will, in any given manner, without a motive, cause or ground, which renders the given choice, rather than a different choice, certain.

The catalyst of action is intent. It's the other end of the bullet.